Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?

When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.

A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.

Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.

Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.

If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.

Equality of Ugliness: If we can't all live in a beautiful place we must all live in an ugly place.

There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.

The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.

You are in charge of your own happiness

It's not weird to look at yourself in the mirror at the gym - that's why they're there! You have to make sure that you're doing things right.

Your reality, Sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever!

But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.

I just want to keep working hard, stay humble, and keep trying to win games.

Any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation because there's always more to see.

If you've got nothing else, passion will get you through.

I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.

True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse.