The average bloke . . . hates and fears all freedom, not only for others but for himself, and stamps it out wherever possible.

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.

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity to do good science.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.

My hope and expectation is that regardless of what Donald Trump said during the campaign, he's going to have to look carefully at the realities when he moves forward.

It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.

The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

Mia Farrow was the person I was really excited about getting to know, because Woody Allen is one of my heroes and, just by proxy, I was a huge fan of hers.

I worked consistently on Broadway from when I was 8 years old through 'Spring Awakening,' which I left in 2008.

I don't have a lot of "I can't" inside me.