Remorse - Regret that one waited so long to do it.

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.

Never marry someone who doesn’t love the movies you love. Sooner or later, that person will not love you.

When you are born you have two different potential for the world: You will either be a gift to the world or a trouble to the world!

The hours I spent with thee dear heart Are as a string of pearls to me I could them over every one apart My rosary my rosary.

I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children.

We're supposed to have guns. It says so in the Bible; and the second greatest book ever written, the Texas State Constitution.

An interview is like a minefield.

Academics are mostly professionals, involved in their work and other concerns of their own, with no particular interest in the workings of the ideological system.

I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.

I don't even know what's brilliant in fashion anymore. There are too many voices.

Ever since I was an itty bitty kitty, been drinking liquor out of Mama's titty.