Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly.

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.

Living honestly is a prerequisite for a clear conscience.

Let thy speech be short comprehending much in few words.

Try to bring me down, but you will never succeed because I'm always moving upward. Maybe not before, but now ... I am.

I think the 60s and 70s were the peak period for the singer-songwriter, for sure.

The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.

I don't want to be about the way I look - my body, my hair, my makeup, all those boring things.

Part of the trouble is that I've never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don't all land like a child out of an apple tree.

Write what you’re scared about.

The names that do the serious damage are the ones we call ourselves. The stereotypes we give ourselves are the ones that matter in the long run, not the ones imposed on us by other people.

Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.