Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive and unpredictable.

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.

When Jesus enters a country the fire of revival starts burning there

I think the world is often like that.” “Like what?” “Comic, but only at the right distance.

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy the only evil that walks invisible.

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.

“Lovelace” was really great. I got to work with the wonderful Amanda Seyfried, Hank Azaria and Peter Sarsgaard, so it can’t get no better than that, right?

It's gonna be a lot of zeroes in that contract. You gonna think it's alphabet soup or something, all those zeroes in there.

We be sticking pill up girl's booty, too!

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

One can be a technical master - full of craftsmanship, but not in most senses an artistic master.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.