A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time.

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.

As she glanced down at the great distance to the ground below, she whispered in his ear, "You have obviously taken the heights of passion to an entirely new level, Killian O'Brien!

Compassion will lead you to extraordinary worlds your fear doesn't dare visit.

When you can overcome the fear of failure, success will not be far away.

Love, far from being blind, is the very emotion that allows us to see.

One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.

No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.

George [Steinbrenner] is a great guy, unless you have to work for him.

Could there ever be a more wonderful story than your own?

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.