Law #3 A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

Law #1 Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

Law #2 The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

Law #4 Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

Law #5 A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

A stupid person is more dangerous than a pillager.

Two factors are important to consider when exploring human behaviour: Benefits and losses that an individual causes to: 1. him or herself and 2. to others.

Intelligent people (top right), who contribute to society and who leverage their contributions into reciprocal benefits.

Helpless people (top left), who contribute to society but are taken advantage of by it (and especially by the "bandit" sector of it); note, however, that extreme altruists and pacifists may willingly and consciously (rather than helplessly) accept a place in this category for moral or ethical reasons.

Bandits (bottom right), who pursue their own self-interest even when doing so poses a net detriment to societal welfare.

Stupid people (bottom left), whose efforts are counterproductive to both their and others' interests.

A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.

To me, wrestling is therapy. No matter how bad my personal situation is, when I step into the ring, all my troubles disappear. My baggage stays in the back where it belongs.

I think growing up in such a small town - before cell phones, before the Internet, before Facebook, before we had access to people's interiors - there was a great deal of space between people's lives. I spent a lot of time imagining into the lives of the people I grew up with.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

If I collect anything, it's lingerie.

President Obama said it best during his state of the Union Address this year when he declared: 'I will go anywhere in the world to open new markets for American products. And I will not stand by when our competitors don't play by the rules.'

My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

Sugar is the next tobacco, without a doubt, and that industry should be scared. It should be taxed just like tobacco and anything else that can, frankly, destroy lives.

Is an out-of-control life challenge making you feel 'out of control' over your entire life? If so, stop lying around doing nothing. Stop sleeping late. Stop watching too much TV. Start recognizing that this lack of a disciplined schedule will only increase your feelings of being out of control of your life.

Cannes is a circus, so you have to have fun with it. Everything suddenly becomes funny. And the promotion of a movie - that's where you really need to be a good actor. You need to make journalists believe that what you're saying is just for them and you've never said it before, even when you're talking about the same film over and over again.

So everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it, and get it incorporated into prices.

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

Besides, Weebles are too hard to draw - they just end up looking like eggs, not people.

Elvis walked over and signed a few autographs over the fence. They were screaming. I had never seen this.

I'm not ambitious; it is clear in my choice of work. I am fine doing a few dance shows in a month to run my household and take care of myself.

I've never broken a piano. However, I've been banned from particular clubs for breaking piano strings.

You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it.

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.

The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.

It was an exciting time for me personally because the number of times I've been to the playoffs, that was the opportunity to obtain the first ring. That was special, that's for sure.

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

The angels are a strange genus they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are themselves soul less beings who represent nothing but the thoughts and intuitions of their Lord.

I went to a great church here in L.A., gave my heart to the Lord and felt freedom from things I've carried throughout my life that I just thought, 'I don't have to carry them any more.'