When it don’t rain, the roof don’t leak; when it rains, I can’t fix it nohow.

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 am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

He who knows the past well can best explain the present and can tell the probable certainties and uncertainties of the future better

I couldn't have done 16 months of deployment without a sense of irony. N

The only skill that cannot be perfected is perfection itself.

An inspiration - a long, deep breath of the pure air of thought - could alone give health to the heart.

The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.

We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn’t it comforting to know God isn’t ever broken? He isn’t ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next.

A generous figure is always nice.

Many people feel small because they're small and the universe is big, but I feel big.

Creativity is an area in which younger people have a tremendous advantage, since they have an endearing habit of always questioning past wisdom and authority.