I was not offended, my love. An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted. And pride is too heavy baggage for my journey.

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.

Tom. Tom, look at me. Has Nora agreed to marry you?""No, but she will because she has to.

Kill the fears before they endorse your failures. When you attempt to stop the terrorist at the time he's at work, you are too late!

We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all we later become

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

The coachs job is to get the best players and get them to play together.

Good music is good music and that should be enough for anybody.

I long for home, long for the sight of home.

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.

I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.