Their Quotes

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries.

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.