The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work stretch out in the sun and scratch himself.

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.

The time to market yourself is all of the time.

...and it struck her as the truest form of kindness, the most basic sort of love: to be worried about the one who was worrying about you.

Scars are not signs of weakness, they are signs of survival and endurance.

Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.

I think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is as great as it is because it's become it's a labor of love. They love what they do.

If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.

I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

True, the free market ignores the poor precisely as it does not recognize the wealthy - it is 'no respecter of persons'

If your boss is getting you down, look at him through the prongs of a fork and imagine him in jail.

Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so do you. Thinking of you this holiday season!