Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong and that 99% of them are wrong.

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.

There’s the impossible and then there’s Cosmic Ordering.

I find endless sustenance in the creative. I freely drink from the fountain of knowledge. I'm forever the student - considered the teacher.

I believe it is possible to make magic every day.

Why is it when we talk to God we are said to be praying and when God talks to us we're said to be schizophrenic?

If you can cultivate wholesome mental states prior to sleep and allow them to continue right into sleep without getting distracted, then sleep itself becomes wholesome.

A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence.

We often reward mediocrity because it is comforting. If they can do it, anyone can do it.

Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.

Your mental attitude gives your entire personality a drawing power that attracts the circumstances, things and people you think about most!

We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.