As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

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.

He is ugly and sad... but he is all love.

EVENTIDEDark and light strikingeach other, vividly etching wild colorsthrough the horizon.The charm of sunset makes me wantto scurry home.

When you start to pursue your dream with a strong faith, the length of its journey and the size of your obstacle ahead would become completely irrelevant.

Ordinary human laws are the means -- however imperfect -- by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.

I had a moment of clarity, saw the feeling in the heart of things, walked out to the garden crying.

There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.

The idea of being a practicing Catholic, it's - for me, it's like - I need a lot of practice, you know what I mean?

It is a set of policies formulated between 15th and 19th streets by the U.S. Treasury, and World Bank. Countries should focus on stabilization, liberalization, privatization.

I did some things I regret, and I know there are people who think they know me. I've heard the things they say, and some of them are hurtful.