The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the Trinity. . . .

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.

People expect that they should be understood by you but seldom put in an effort to understand you.

Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms.

At IMVU, we opened up our board meetings to the whole company.

My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.

I think as artists we have an opportunity to shed light and share different stories and expose different realities and inspire people and give a different perspective.

Formula for failure: Try to please everybody.

Empowering means helping teams develop their skills and knowledge and supporting them to use their talents.

My message is not wholly understood; only poets understand it.

Ship small art. Then, ship medium art. Then, ship world-changing, scary, change-your-underwear art.