Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Obedience is doing what is told regardless of 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.

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.

The way you attract something you term special determines how you safeguard it.

I see the way he looks at you when you're not aware of his gaze. I see the way you care for him. And so when you think he wants you gone, it is not that. He is simply afraid to lose you.

Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

I'd like to be the ambassador to the Bahamas.

Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

The idea of trying to predict what people will or won't respond to is risky.

The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men.

To pray is nothing more involved than to open the door, giving Jesus access to our needs and permitting Him to exercise His own power in dealing with them.

No matter how much bullying they inflict on my body, as long as I have this hope, I can endure any pain.

Sean Penn's really the only one stupid enough to put anything down on paper.