A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.

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.

I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time

she's alone but never lonelyshe's been through a lot but never bittershe's loved and lost but keeps on lovingshe lives in the present because that's all there is right now...

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It’s like your shadow. It follows you everywhere. -Komura

I personally favor old mechanical watches, but my snobbery does not extend to demanding that all people wear them. My snobbery demands that no one wear a digital.

People who know me, recognize a definite difference in my poise and in my personality, because I've grown.

Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"

Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.

How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.