Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement

I don't care what anything was designed to do, I care about what it can do.

There never seems to be enough hours in the day. At the moment I have no time to make new music because I've been doing so much promotion for this new single.

Our ever-present mobile devices provide the immediate and convenient information necessary to make sharing things truly irresistible.

Black eyeliner. It’s standard. It’s all you need. It just makes the world a better place.

Close your legs to married men.

Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

Prayer is the conduit through which power from heaven is brought to earth.

Your responsibility as an artist is to experiment.

The Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] and I will negotiate proceeding from our national interests: the interests of Russia and the interests of Japan. We should find a compromise.