The mind's ability to rationalize it's own shortcomings is unlimited; I am no exception.

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.

No one ever loved you like him. And no one ever took it away so completely. But it's here. Look around.

There's only three things you need to do when you are finished editing your book - Sleep! Sleep! and Sleep!

If one has never known freedom, it is easy to be blind to the gridirons composing one's cell.

I've come to feel very strongly, not as a joke, that if you appoint a committee of more than four people, their efficiency starts to deteriorate.

Always the bridesmaid , never the bride." Always the godfather, never the god".

I find that when I tell lawyer jokes to a mixed audience, the lawyers don't think they're funny and the non-lawyers don't think they're jokes.

Miss Lynn came around the corner of the row of lockers,glaring daggers. No, daggers would be too delicate a weapon for her.Glaring sledgehammers was probably more appropriate.

In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say.

Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.

If your broker or investment advisor is not familiar with the concept of standard deviation of returns, get a new one.