Anything which is physically possible can be made financially possible, if the people of a state desire it.

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.

I’d rather spend the rest of my life without ever seeing you again, ” he says, “than watch them destroy you because of me.

Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.

Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately

We know the battle ahead will be long. But always remember that, no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.

Room service? Send up a larger room.

What passion cannot music raise and quell!

Even if the whole of India, ranged on one side, were to declare that Hindu-Muslim unity is impossible, I will declare that it is perfectly possible.

I have been here before in my head. To everyone else, it is my first Olympics. To me, it's my thousandth.

There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.

America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.