It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.

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.

There's a feeling sometimes in motherhood that you're alone in what you're going through, and none of us are alone. We're all going through the same thing.

Technology is the answer, but what was the question?

If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.

The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.

I love my friends and my past, and it's made me who I am.

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

Nothing is more harmful to the world than a martial art that is not effective in actual self-defense.

Stop costly new regulations that would increase unemployment, raise consumer prices, and weaken the nation's global competitiveness with virtually no impact on global temperatures.

I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.

The one thing that teams can't endure in the NFC any more is injuries. Good teams become bad teams just because they get spread thin with injuries.