When the need arises - and it does - you must be able to shoot your own dog. Don't farm it out — that doesn't make it nicer, it makes it worse.

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.

Every word that I utter matters and this makes me speechless.

It's just that life felt the right size in there... not too big and not too small. Wasn't so hard to work up a bit of courage. It's got so bloody complicated since then.

When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.

It's fun to see how other artists adapt my work.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Parents sometimes think of newborns as helpless creatures, but in fact parents' behavior is much more under the infant's control than the reverse. Does he come running when you cry?

Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide open.

A woman is not old as long as she loves and is loved

We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty and send children to school and provide health.