I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.

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.

Our need for instant gratification is the reason we’re drawn to liars and hot air blowers.

Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.

The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.

I think that you can make a drama and have it be intensely funny, and vice versa.

Just when you think you know something, it gets turned around and challenged in some way. But those changes are welcome because you end up learning more.

The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.

As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.

I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.