Die trying" is the proudest human thing.

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.

...this is your life. It's not your mom's. You have to do what makes you happy too

No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all that there is in life, it seems to me.

Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.

There are many ways of knocking electrons out of atoms. The simplest is to rub two surfaces together.

Politics, glamor, fame - they're all mixed up together, and they always have been.

In case you didn't notice me, I'm the less attractive friend to the right.

It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.

The higher the building the lower the morals.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

Of course, I do not regret the Bond days. I regret that sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands, and to tell the truth, I have always hated guns and what they represent.