I will make you an offer you cannot refuse

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults

Friendship and money: oil and water.

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.

Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.

By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.

The idea that the story is true is more important than being able to prove that it's true.

There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.

Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.

Just to be able to release an album back in the day when I came out was very gratifying. Most people were not given the opportunity.

Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.

Ideas are cheap. A dime a dozen, as they say. It's the implementation that's important! The trick isn't just to have a computer game idea, but to actually create it!

Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the kind of people they are.