An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

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 miracle focus culture is propagating wickedness.

You cannot withstand continual setbacks unless you've seen a worthwhile vision...

Remember what I done for you here today, ' he shouted and passed out.

You have to transfer your success on the track to your education, because you don't want to waste what you did athletically once your athletic career is over.

In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.

There is really no end to life's little humiliations.

I see the universe as naturally and infinitely self-correcting.

I was told that when you hit forty men stop looking at you. It's true, until you slip on a mini-skirt.