The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

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.

You don't have to find out you're dying to start living.

I do like sci-fi. When I was a kid, I was always sort of locked into sci-fi stories. So, sci-fi has always had a special place in my heart.

Pen in Barack Obama hands is far more dangerous than any other president, at least in modern history, if not ever.

Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.

A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.

Once you get below the floor of our personal identities, we're all connected. Perhaps that's why we can move into others' lives.

When you sit in meditation, feel the joy in your soul.

Wade Dooley: With a handle like that he sounds more like a western sheriff than the Lancashire bobby that he is.

It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.

My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way.