“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.”

“Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.”

“When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.”

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. 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.”

“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”

“The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.”