Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

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.

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.

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

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

Lardo was getting on in years, and his big belly tended to slow him down a bit.

The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.

There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music.

I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.

Because God is sovereign, He is able to answer. Because He is faithful to His promises, He will answer.

Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.

That was the way with grief: it left you alone for months together until you thought that you were cured, and then without warning it blotted out the sunlight.

I'm proof that, even after having a baby, you can look better and sexier than ever!

Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.