Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.

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.

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change, . Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.

Women understand the workings of nature than men. They trust in their instincts while men consider this behavior weakness.

Reaching my first grand slam final was amazing, and I didn't expect it at just 19 years old.

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

I'm not the No. 1 starter. I'm not the guy that's going to carry the staff for four months out of the season, but I can contribute in a lot of ways. And to me I'm very proud of that.

Hollywood is an illusion. These intense workplaces, with very close relationships, a few months at a time - and then it ends.

Dear me, if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!

I come to YOU without ME, come to ME without YOU.

The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw. Chocolate.