The best client is a scared millionaire.

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.

True patience is grounded in wisdom and compassion.

I may not be a politician, but I will fight to the end of my life for what I believe in.

He has been greatly missed since his retirement ... Thank God for videotapes and DVDs. In this regard, he will always be around.

The rock biz is the low end of the creative world. Faces come and go so fast.

Forty years spent in wandering in a wilderness like that of the present is not a sad fate - unless one attempts to make himself believe that the wilderness is after all itself the promised land.

Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe.

I live in Manhattan now, because, in a way, it was my fantasy.

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.

What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?