A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.

The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.

Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

The perpetual struggle for room and food.

Malthus married in 1804 and beat three children with his wife

Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.

You don’t need miracles in the west. You have insurance.

You can't muffle a real good time.

There is no death! the stars go down To rise upon some other shore And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown They shine for ever more.

One day I'll be able to relax a bit, and try and become a good composer.

A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people.

If Sony's not going to show 'The Interview,' that's it. No more North Korean movies for me.

Time passes. That's for sure.

Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell.

I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility.

Mitt Romney turned businesses around in the private sector. He saved the Winter Olympics.