Man makes love by braggadocio, and woman makes love by listening.

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 noble acquisition is attended with its risks he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other

The only pressure that you use in a professional selling presentation is the presence of silence after the closing question.

I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster.

We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear.

But then again, you know, the pimp in TAXI DRIVER has this reason, given the environment he was living in.

It is always an accident that saves us. It is someone we have never seen.

Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.

I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.

If you are able to look beyond near term trouble, you have an advantage over many professional investors