The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people who count.

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.

Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.

It's great that ballroom dancing is being recognised. For many years ballroom dancers were misunderstood and other dance forms didn't want anything to do with us.

When you're not putting a bunch of chemicals into everbody, people tend not to fly off the handle.

I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, how not to make a mess of it, has not yet been met.

I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.

Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument.

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest.

Concepts can never be presented to me merely, they must be knitted into the structure of my being, and this can only be done through my own activity.

There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.