You live and learn. Or you don't live long.

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.

You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.

The greatest duty is to know, love and obey God.

I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I do.

Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to see people labouring to saw off the branch they are sitting on.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

I was always willing to say, "Let's see what happens," when something came up that looked like it might help me get a little closer to where I wanted to be . . .

The blood in my veins is frozen but it sings of love.

I’m a morning person and a night person. So I have to be a nap person, or else I’m a tired person.

I mean, I really loved the mix of personal health and, kind of, community health and justice, and I really saw how they were inseparable.

It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it.