To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

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.

I want Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and in peace with itself.

The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away.

When I admit my own imperfections, it doesn't mean I am a bad person.

He who tears down the cross, what is there left to lift him to heaven? The church claiming to be a Christian church is false to the title, if she make the cross of Christ of none effect.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

For me, it is important to not just tell the audience how the story ended today, but to give a glimpse into how other people's stories might go on, in the future.

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.

The real excitement and big deal for me started when I got cast in the first X-Men, which was sort of a fluke.

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'