The learned are seldom pretty fellows, and in many cases their appearance tends to discourage a love of study in the young.

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.

It is only by embracing the full spectrum of human consciousness that we can bring about a true awakening of the heart

Compassion should be our animating principle when undertaking instruction with children and adults, since they are made in God's image.

I am the doctor of our family, and I am a big fan of homeopathy.

I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

When you have no real power, go public - really public. The public is where the real power is.

I'm never going to run this again.

To go to war without the Security Council will not be in conformity with the Council.

Interactivity and a better experience aren't always the same thing.

To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.