When you're rich, you don't have friends; you just have endless acquaintances.

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.

Know that dreaming is a waste of sleeping time and energy if you don’t wake up to achieve them.

I like the idea of being the funny guy in the dramatic thing, playing a hit man with a weird sense of humor.

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.

There is soul music, soul food, and soul love.

Beware of the corporate invasion of private memory.

People die when curiosity goes.People have to find out, people have to know. How can there be any true revolution till we know what we're made of? 830

Only the naive inflationist's could believe that government could enrich mankind through fiat money.

Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.

I think the world is in the mess it's in because we are spiritually ignorant.

I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.