The intelligent fights only when he must and never for sport.

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.

and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.

We boldly conquer any fear with faith.

Aunt Syl must have conveniently stopped reading the childhood fairy tales when the knight left the damsel in distress to pursue a better damsel out of my bedtime routine.

In the baby’s roomThe city lights areMilkyIn the curtains… Breath Gentle as rain, Sleep Quiet as snowflakes

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, he understood, but to be with each other.

I think right now the focus of people involved in food issues have to be legislative resolution at the county, city, state, and national level. I just don't think we can run away from it anymore.

A little love and attention can go a long way...too bad more people don't realize that.

With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.

Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.