The death rate is the same for us as for anybody ... one person, one death, sooner or later.

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.

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

Why does humankind love to seek the glory of one another instead of the glory of God?

Keep God within His and anothers' arm's reach.

For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.

If you are committed to your highest potential, existence will support you with new energies.

For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.

Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.

My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs).

To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of good wine.