What we think of as 'Physical beauty' is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness - intelligence - among them.

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.

We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time"....

The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.

It is necessary, first of all, to find a correct logical starting point, one which can lead us to a natural and sound interpretation of the empirical facts.

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

Grace. Loss. Fortune. Hardship. Victory. Sometimes the worst seat is best seat in the house and it comes as a result of leading.

I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

I can remember a couple of real fights when I ran. Because they were kinda dangerous.

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

It is the mark of a hypocrite to be a Christian everywhere except at home.