A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.

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.

Success is a lifestyle.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

I absolutely insist that all my boys are in bed before breakfast

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

I know that you that you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. If you accept that you have been defeated, you give power to the force that is trying to defeat you.

Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.

The great thing about the electronic music scene is that everybody can be part of it either by dancing, DJing, or organizing a party.

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.