I believe in the honest craft of workmen.

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 life can remove someone you never wanted to lose, it can replace them with someone you never dreamed of wanting.

It is in vain to hope to guard against events too mighty for human foresight or precaution, and it would be idle to object to a government because it could not perform impossibilities.

To me, this is not an information age. It's an age of networked intelligence, it's an age of vast promise.

Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.

I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don’t like who I am.

Know what you want, decide when you want it, figure your plan of action, follow through on it, and never doubt.

A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.

To despond is to lie ungrateful beforehand. Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling.

Life is a game - sometimes serious, sometimes fun - but a game that must be played with true team spirit.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.