Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

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.

Love is a powerful magic.

Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the form her affection took: paying attention.

You are not superior to others and others are not superior to you. You are only different than others and others are only different than you!

Despair is our chance to wrestle with fire and come through.

How people die remains in the memory of those who live on

Fear is something you have to throw into a corner. Constantly. Because it never goes away.

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

There's a real rebirth in the artistic community to stand up for what you believe in.

I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day.

The biggest thing politically within fashion is that the clothing should be displayed on different body shapes.