A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

The world is teeming

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

The characteristic of a well-bred man is, to converse with his inferiors without insolence, and with his superiors with respect and with ease.

If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.

Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.

I'm just like my country. I'm young, scrappy and hungry.

God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself.

In art, a dress is never just a dress; nor in life either.

God always works with workers and moves with movers, but He does not sit with sitters.

Not the power to conquer others but the power to become one with others is the ultimate power.