The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.

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.

Thunder roars but does not strike. Lightning strikes but does not roar. Choose to be lightning.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.

If the West wants to have peace, then they have to accept Islamic rule.

The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.

Men must sweat to attain virtue.

Khaddar brings a ray of hope to the widow's broken-up home.

It seems possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.

The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.

Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball. He treated me like a damn colored boy.

I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.