The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.

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.

Don't ask too much for space. They grow into voids.

Sure, the outcome was favourable, but what was the cost? Wasn't changing the way she felt about something not far from taking away her free will altogether?

Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.

I think you've got to get out whatever's hurting you through your art, so it doesn't twist you up inside.

I'm affected by my environment. Los Angeles makes me defensive and wary.

The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

Without Christ, not one step; with Him, anywhere!

People with humility don't think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less.

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.