The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.

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 always do this to people?""Do what?""Get them to empty their guts out just like that.""We do not have much time. We should only talk about what is important.

You are a potential genius, so unleash your potential to release your genius.

If you go get a passport, it might encourage you to at least consider the world around you.

Your separation from God is the hardest work you will ever do.

Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.

You can’t second-guess baseballyou can’t second-guess yourself.

I want to make big-sounding pop records.

Waking up each morning to a hysterical alarm clock on the bedside table.

O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.