Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

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.

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.

Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.

I'm a great believer in particularly being alert to changes that change something, anything, by an order of magnitude, and nothing operates with the factors of 10 as profoundly as the Internet.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

I've always called myself a writer/performer, not an actor because I basically write what I perform.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

It is extremely important for you to believe in yourselves, not only for what you are now, but for what you have the power to become.

Give what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy.

I used to have all the Goosebumps books as a kid too.