I hope my books make statements about our general condition.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.

I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.

I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.

The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.

Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his work.

Mother Teresa would seek no other pulpit than the hovels of the poor, and no other sermon than her works of love, performed for the unloved, in God's name.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.

Everything has to do with geography.

Americans are sick of the idea of the government taking over everything and trying to run it. We don't know how to run a bank, a car company.

Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.

No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.