Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

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.

I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are.

In order to have success we have to make an effort and this demands persistent, diligent hard work

Nice to be born in this universe. Thanks dad and mom.

A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.

Life is magical. There is something wonderful in being alive, in having within one's self all sorts of possibilities.

I think you can tell a lot from the lives of many of today's great soloists. Their participation and gravitation towards chamber music is ever increasing.

A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen.

By the time the Oscars are on I'll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar?

When Obama ran, he said, We can change the world! The world: can you change it back?!

The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.