Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room.

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.

What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.

Was this how the characters in Harry Potter felt when the spoke the name of You-Know-Who?

Don't be afraid your life will end be afraid it will never begin.

Humility is a virtue and it is a virtue innate in guests.

There are no absolutes in raising children. In any stressful situation, fathering is always a roll of the dice. The game may be messy, but I have never found one with more joys and rewards.

A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.

Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American.

Being loved is a good thing. A grand thing. The best damned thing of all.

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.