Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

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.

Stay unknown until you know what you want to be known for.#StokesNotes

Don't complain but compliment.Don't compete but empower.

I don't play hockey at all. I'm not comfortable on skates.

Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.

The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage, not their birth.

The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.

You know where nice people end up? On welfare.

I want to know a lot of things I don't already know -especially as the things I do know, if written down, do not have the permanence I want in my mind.