When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.

Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

But of all the instances of error arising from this physical fancy, the worst is that we have before us: the habit of exhaustively describing a social sickness, and then propounding a social drug.

This cult of the future is not only a weakness but a cowardice of the age.

Our political vagueness divides men, it does not fuse them.

A head can be beaten small enough until it fits the hat.

What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, that sums up my ethics. Only something supernatural can express the Supernatural.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians.

If you're going to hope for a change, you'd better start to pray for a change. If you're just hoping, you ain't going anywhere.

There's nothing like a nice piece of hickory.

What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.

You're splitting?" "No sh*it, Sherlock.

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.