The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.

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.

If you go through the biography of any famous personality you idolize you are sure to see the how the words ‘I can’ and ‘I believe’ played a very vital role in their fame.

To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.

Instruction would be wasted on me. Just to give me the form and I'll sign on the dotted line.

Well, if you're going to watch that close, the trick is off.

If you have one strong idea, you can't help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one novel and then be put in a gas chamber.

I give thanks for all that has passed, for all that is passing, and for all that is yet to come.

I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.

Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure.

Since I have always been a strong believer in God, I knew that He was with me, and only He could get me through that next step

When evolution has been outlawed, only the outlaws will evolve.