A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

War would end if the dead could return.

I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.

The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.

Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

If a person takes comfort in his or her faith upon divinity in times of distress, then who the hell am I to say, that the person is delusional.

A man’s most valuable possession is his integrity. Unless he has no integrity. In which case, he may not have much of anything of value.

I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple.

The relationship between critic and writer is similar to the one between the pigeon and the statue.

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.

I Google myself pretty often. I usually find something about All Time Low or my break-up with Holly [Madison].

The long and winding road that leads to your door / Will never disappear, / I've seen that road before it always leads me here, / Leads me to your door.

Always praise 'em before you hit 'em.

I think it's wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.