Small change can often be found under seat cushions.

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.

The guilty are uncomfortable with silence.

Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.

One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

There are bodies buried everywhere you just have to know where to look.

Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.

Bachelors alone can travel freely, and without any twinges of their consciences touching desertion of the fire-side.

I know something about aircraft carriers for real.

Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.

I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.

No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.