The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force.

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 were created, fashioned and designed in a special form to leave in the world something that did not exist before you were born!

Take a moment and sit with yourself. You may find what you are looking for.

Everybody must be focused on cultivating their own land of promise

I'm as passionate as any car owner or car collector that has one car or 300 cars.

Justin Martyr says that he was impressed in his study of the Old Testament, at the seriousness and contents of these writings, and became convinced that Jesus fulfilled these texts.

Being single isn't the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well.

The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist.

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

Without the existence of the opposite, the concept has no meaning.

In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often, I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Germany. She said 'cut it out'