Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

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.

BRAVE are the courageous souls who dare step outside the predefined yellowbrick road.

Find the courage to live life.

There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.

The best proof that there's intelligent life in the universe is that it hasn't come here.

Some people get attached to their practice. They get good at it, but even becoming a good meditator can become a hindrance.

I was what you are, you will be what I am.

The more we know about how we lost our spontaneous wonder and creativity, the more we can find ways to get them back.

Beware the beguiled, they do their own beguiling.

God is kind, but he is not soft. He takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life change.

The bonus for bankers fragilizes the system. Someone has the upside at the expense of others.