The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch.

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

If human progress had been more a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia to-day.

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

All the wisdom of the world consists of shouting with the majority.

They could do worse, and they undoubtedly will.

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

The reason why the race of man moves slowly is because it must move all together.

Politics is mostly pill-taking.

Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better person, and who you like or dislike results in the same thing.

With books, you can have as many boyfriends as you want, and no one gets upset, jealous or calls you out for cheating. It’s a win-win.

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

If the world is meaningless, then so are we; if we mean something, we do not mean alone.

Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time, nine canvases. It's murderous.

Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen.

When you are in deep distress and cannot restrain some expression of it, sit down and write out a harsh letter venting your anger. But don't send it.

Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.

There is no God other than life itself.

You always have a second chance, as long as you believe you do and you try again, and stay positive and persistent and consistent.