The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.

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.

There is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese.

The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision.

Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would be enough to make people think it was a detective story.

I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath.

Don't take it so seriously.

Working with cool people helps when working with few shots. You trust yourself and them.

A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding.

Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.

Anytime you see a constrained market, where consumption is limited to those who have special skills or are wealthy, that signals an opportunity for innovation.

The same ten minutes that magazines urge me to use for sit-ups and triceps dips, I used for sobbing.