Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

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.

EACH MORNING I SAY WAKE UP, I GOT A CHANCE TO MAKE UP, MY WRONGS HAS TO BE CLEAN UP, MY PAST IS A BREAK UP, I HAVE TO THINK FOR FUTURE BACK UP.

You have to be able to look objectively at the problem, deflating the emotional part of it.

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of enlightenment.

I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that.

Plot and character are virtually the same thing.

I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

The goal has never been to always succeed. The goal is to be allowed to keep initiating.

My dream job would be a lawyer. I can talk my way out of anything, and I love cross-examining people. I think I'd be a really good lawyer.