Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.

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.

The idea that I could lose her again… it’s unbearable.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.

42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your family.

We were not the victims of ancestor worship. We had the benefits of a fresh start.

I think always my interest in making movies is to have something really technical mixed with something that was not so formal...something free.

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

the female view that one strengthens oneself by strengthening others is finding greater acceptance, and female values of inclusion and connection are emerging as valuable leadership qualities.

No matter what you write, it's a matter of putting words in a certain order so that the reader will be interested in what you're writing.

Earmarks are supposed to be bad. But they don't increase spending.