If you can't join them, beat them.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

My life needs editing.

People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.

I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.

When Obama ran, he said, We can change the world! The world: can you change it back?!

There's a danger our fiscal bankruptcy might overtake our moral bankruptcy.

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.

Remember that no matter how selfish, how cruel, how unfeeling you have been today, every time you take a breath, you make a flower happy.

The fact is that you can't have a good relationship with a girl who hasn't settled things with her father.

One thing about being narrow-minded: you'll never be lonely.

Your calling is buried in your background on earth

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot.

And they [illegal immigrants] will come back, but they are going to have to go out, and hopefully they get back.

No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.

Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.

Hunger is the handmaid of genius

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.