Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.

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.

Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.

People wishes their friends to be in politics, but their sons in professions.

The worst is, I remain so stone cold. Does this war make you an 'alive-dead person'? Is it not possible to remain yourself in this chaos? How long still?

There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it.

Among my friends, I'm not a little Boy Scout, and they love my humor, thank God.

To have beautiful lips, say beautiful things. To have beautiful eyes, look at people and see the good in them.

Holland gets by on a total of four food additives; we have over 1,400.

Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.

And so there is magic.

All models are wrong; some models are useful.