The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.

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.

I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.

When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves.

American Lives Are Not More Important Than Other People's Lives

Lucy was using my blanket to dry the dishes. We now have very secure dishes!

If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.

There's an old American saying that says you can't beat somebody with nobody.

When you put your feet on the floor every morning, Hell should shake!

When have you ever heard of a cantor or any artist turning anyone down when he is strongly urged to perform?