There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

Every country has the government it deserves.

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.

To appear in heaven, let yourself disappear amongst the beauties of nature!

I am a child of the American Century, and I feel a genetic commitment to understanding why it happened, and why I take it so personally.

The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - 'to spew out paper.'

The bar is so low in rap - mediocrity is king!

Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.

There is a deadening conformity in the culture of cyberspace in which we don't intend to participate.

With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a clue.

I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.

That is the way this game is -- you win, you lose, you celebrate and you suffer.