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.

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.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Here, in this quiet place we own, worlds are born.

It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.

I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment... a job.

I guess play piano, you know, because that's the thing I started doing when I was a little kid.

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.

I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.

You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses.

The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.

We are a democratic - we are living in democracy.