Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.

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.

Every long separation is a test: A test to see how powerful or how weak the will of reuniting is!

I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter.

Creative leadership impact increases in your 50's. When I turn 50 I want to say, "Nice start!"

I mean People come up and ask for autographs or say hi but they wont bug you.

That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.

How much more comfortable it is to say 'Yes, and...' than 'Yes, but...'.

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion

I am practicing being kind over being right.

Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?

True beauty is a ray That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower.