Debussy--A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one.

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.

Failure is when you give up. A real winner is someone that doesn't give up, even when it feels like they are losing.

He never sat an examination in economics: his knowledge came from pondering problems and discussing them as much as from book-learning.

We must stop calling bribes in our higher institutions “helping my child to gain admission.

The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

He could've had Jesus, Buddha, he could have had every God in his corner, it wouldn't have helped him against me.

Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.

Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good.

You can create fashion everywhere in the world, but the place where you are crowned is Paris.