I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.

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.

With [Vladimir] Putin, he says he's going to do something, he gets on it, does it.

God's Word is the only reliable guideline for living. Following your heart, without the leading of His Word and His Spirit, will lead you to His judgement.

And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

It feels good to be fit and strong.

Unfortunately, I'm one of those idiots who knows everything about health and is in a constant state of alarm, and yet I continue to do everything I shouldn't do.

When you're amongst people doing well it's so gratifying and spurs you to just keep investing in your job.

Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth.

What faith can you place in a general or a soldier who lacks resolution and determination, who says, 'I shall keep guard as long as I can'?