Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.

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.

Iniquity shall be increased above that which now thou see, or that thou hast heard long ago.

Great men have not been concerned with fame. The joy of achievement that comes from finding something new in the universe is by far their greatest joy.

If a lawyer, if a teacher, if a bus driver, if they're on $40, 000 and they get offered a lot more to go somewhere else, what do you think they're going to do?

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'

Don't let the storm take the wind out of your sails.

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.

These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message

The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

People get so stressed and nervous and mad.

I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.