Suicide is a belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives.

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 are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

Step into your track and begin your steps till you reach the end because life is a personal journey.

A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.

I'm sick of my own romanticism!

The opportunity to think with another mind is my preferred mode of travel.

Life is perfect, it glows.

The key to our transformation is simply this: the better we know ourselves the better equipped we will be to make our choices wisely.

I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe absolutely in Hilbert space any more.

To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.