Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in law schools.

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.

As long as we still draw breath, we each have the power to bring change into the world.

I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.

Computers are like horses; they can sense fear and will act based on that.

While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

At some point if you had gone into all of our stories in depth that would've just kind of been all over the place.

Carles Puyol is a Barcelona legend. He could have been playing every two weeks but he has shown dignity until the end.

Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time.

The Creator is not a careless mechanic.

We also call for a freeze on the bank accounts of those countries, including our allies, with due warning.

Of course, I'm sour that if (retirement) happens, I didn't get to quit on my own terms.