Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.

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.

Money should not be the motivator in your life, it will only make you slave. Stand for values and you will die in honor.

Of that there is no manner of doubt - No probable possible shadow of doubt - No possible doubt whatever.

Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.

I have a writer’s concentration: intense, but flickering.

Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

You know who would make an interesting murder-suicide? Madeline Albright and Yanni.

I struggled more with my identity. Let's be honest - early on in my first records, I didn't have the power to tell David Foster or other producers what to do.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.