It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts.

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.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Diplomacy without arms is like a concert without a score

I like to think I'm generally accessible, but I give readers the benefit of the doubt of being reasonably culturally-literate.

I've thought maybe of getting younger artists out doing stuff, like I used to do a lot of. I don't wanna do it day in and day out like I used to, but I still wanna do it.

If one extends knowledge to the utmost, one will have wisdom. Having wisdom, one can then make choices.

The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.

I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.

I am relatively familiar with getting a good old rumping from the critics. In some cases, the critics just didn't like the film - fair cop. Others, I think, didn't understand it.

If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed to the will of God.

[The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone.