Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them.

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.

Early to bed and early to rise may make a person 'healthy' but it may not make him ‘wealthy’ and ‘wise’! If anyone really wants to be wealthy and wise, he must read books and work intelligently!

A good attitude is the best attire.

Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. We worship self-indulgence & consumption.

I don't try to knock people out, but I have the ability to press him and get the cheese.

The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.

I don't play in tournaments, but I follow some.

Having outlived so many of my contemporaries, I ought not to forget that I may be thought to have outlived myself.

Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations.

Not careers alone make people happy. A successful professional life and joy in work are certainly a part of it, but I couldn't be happy without a fulfilling private life.

I feel physically ill if I don't make work, I don't create. I don't feel very good. I don't feel right, I feel wrong.