We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

The unfed mind devours itself.

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

Challenges often require that we suffer or endure over an extended period of time —thus Challenges develop patience.

Begin to read, write, sing, dance, study, draw…!

In my lifetime I have witnessed far too many miracles to believe in impossibilities, and so I am officially modifying the defini

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Sometimes broken things heal crooked. The pieces didn’t fit anymore.

The forest fires are the worst disaster in California since I was elected.

I don't go back and look at the monitor between every take; I wait until I feel like we finally got it right: "Let me stop and look at that last one on the monitor."

The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.

If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.