To the extent that I am genuinely educated, I am suspicious of all the things that the average citizen believes and the average pedagogue teaches.

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.

The only reason I can’t jump in and engage life is that I’ve told myself I can’t. Yet I can’t helping wondering would happen if I told myself I could?

Association brings impartation

I'm a clean freak and a germaphobe - I have hand sanitizer in my pocket.

That's the fastest time ever run - but it's not as fast as the world record

When your ex says ‘You’ll never find anyone like me’. Say ‘that’s the point’.

Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

Maybe that's what real friendship is -- getting so used to people that you need to be annoyed by them.

In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.