The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Iniquity shall be increased above that which now thou see, or that thou hast heard long ago.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

It was the Buffalo Bills at the Minnesota Vikings on NBC. It went to about five markets.

With the press there is no "off the record.

Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it.

The biggest thing is to continue to do what you do. A lot of people, when they get to a certain level, start thinking about it too much and they change what they do.

Life is short. But desire, desire is long.

Cynicism is no more mature than naïveté. You're no more mature, just more burned.

I want to be the person whose art is accessible, who someone could look at and say "That's doesn't look so hard, I could do that."

I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.