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Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

"The point is there ain't no point."

"Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others."

"It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself."

"Do as you will, for there is nothing to be done."

"Nihilism, there's really nothing to it."

"But when justice is done the world drops away."

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.

Luck is believing you're lucky.

Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.

Everything in life is luck.

"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

"Patience and time do more than strength or passion."

"I must govern the clock, not be governed by it."

"Time does not change us. It just unfolds us."

"Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity."

"The secret of the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously!"

"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."

"It is the stillest words that bring the storm."

"I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!"

"Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises."

"On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow."

"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler."

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage."

"Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?"

"Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent."

"Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good."

“When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on.”

“Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.”

“Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?”

“In a mad world, only the mad are sane.”

“If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.”

“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”

“May you live every day of your life.”

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”

"I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create."

"Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better."

“I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it.”

"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is."

"I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse."

"Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure."

"There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people."

"The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die."