The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.

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.

Your unconscious mind is trying to figure out how to talk to your conscious.

I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.

The reason that so many times we don't win the battle is that we never show up for the war!

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

Fingers get habits - have memories of their own.

Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.

There was a big question as to whether or not different generations have grown up differently

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.

Cool-Hand Luke' is one of my favorite movies.

Nobody ever recognizes themselves unless they are not the character. There are many people who have claimed to be in my books, but unfortunately they were usually people that I didn't know.