'Tis more blessed to give than to receive for example wedding presents.

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.

When your heart jumps every time your camera locks focus...You've become a photographer.

I make movies. I have a passion. Puppies and daisies don't accomplish anything. That's not me at all.

...I don't think my church's teachings were incorrect, just incomplete.

I don't think anything has been set in stone yet.

Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.

Every town in America had at least one, two, or maybe three radio stations that played rock 24 hours a day. In England, we had a rock specialist on for two hours a week.

Bread without love is like grass without salt -- the stomach may be filled, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

Be it only for a day, it is still a glory without equal to be master of the world just that day.

I'm a good solid family man. I don't say I'm a good solid man.

Fear, fear, breeds hopelessness. When you're afraid, you don't know what to believe in, you don't know what to hold on to. You're struggling to find something to believe in.