Never underestimate the totality of chaos and betrayal that comes through currency debasement.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

Remember, the greater the opportunity, the fewer are those who see it.

Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.

It's easier to have faith in yourself if you have faith in God.

To succeed in business, put the interest of the customer ahead of your own.

The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.

Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.

Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.

Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.

[poems are] crystals deposited after the effervescent contact of the spirit with reality.(cristaux deposes apres l'effervescent contact de l'esprit avec la realite)

I, as the writer, can be very clear that I am writing a work of heightened fiction, as opposed to documenting horrible things that happen every day in the world. Which I have no interest in doing.

It is imperative to use forceful measures to force the regime to respect human rights.

The more successful an organization becomes, the more difficult it is to deal with.

Boredom makes you do crazy things

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

I remember going to see Amiri Baraka. It wasn't actually too long before he died. He said, "You've got to write to change the world!" I was like, "Not me, no, no, no, no."

I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin.

Traveling changed my personality and gave me ability to do the music I do and to think in a certain way that everything can be possible.

We must not mind insulting men, if by respecting them we offend God.