An altruist is one who would be sincerely sorry to see his neighbor's children devoured by wolves.

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.

A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

Contrary to popular belief, going shopping is really about stopping afterward for cheesecake.

Daily mediate on the Holy Scriptures.

If you decide to do anything and follow throughwith actions with the same intensity as your decision, you willdefinitely end up with an excellent result.

Yet, the most wonderful in my heart remains unsaid and it will remain so forever!

Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.

Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

Lyrics are always the last thing to get done.

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

For I am nothing if not critical.