He never gave up his search for the Door into Summer.

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.

Being a highly sensetive person is followed by a lot of infinity pain and grief.

Hope says to us constantly "Go on go on " and leads us thus to the grave.

Success makes opportunities and so many of those "opportunities" are actually exemptions - from hardship, from unfriendliness, from struggle.

Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.

What madness! Yet she would do it, if she could force herself. She'd become, she believed, a stronger person: a willful, resolute. Like the man who adored her, reckless.

This is what you should do, let it rest. I'm playing football for LSU. I'm preparing for R-Kansas. I'm preparing for the next game, and the next game after that.

Addicts sometimes have a penchant for becoming the center of attention at other people's celebrations.

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.

Writers can write to affirm and to celebrate, or they can write to debunk and destroy; the choice is ours.