School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.

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.

When you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, the day will come when you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them.

Norwegian racism is always a kind of racism that is not prepared to accept it being qualified as such. Because we're the good guys, and racism is what bad people do.

Honestly, I've always had difficulty relaxing, unwinding and going to bed - that kind of stuff.

Just days after Mitt Romney suggested he might run for president, there's been a backlash. The backlash is led by Jeb Bush, Mike Huckabee, and just to hedge his bets on every issue, Mitt Romney.

The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.

I always thought success was from inside, so it was how diversified you were as a person and how cultivated or how much you cultivated yourself.

The last thing I remember, I left with a girl on a motor bike that weighed 300 pounds.

Because I'm thinking in a broader way, I feel like I am able to make better decisions.

Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events.