The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.

Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.

The present is the key to the past

If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then.

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

When I write now, I pretend I'm holding hands with the old me. I try to make sense of all those questions for her.

Don't try to be consistent; it is a waste of time. Just try to update your truth with the real truth!

Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire.

Last night I begged the Wise One to tell me the secret of the world. Gently, gently, he whispered, "Be quiet, the secret cannot be spoken, It is wrapped in silence."

I'm very sad to be compared with Warhol and The Factory, because I have no drugs, you know. We have no drug culture in Japan! Maybe it's because our attitude toward labor is totally different.