At least half of my life's many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.

The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.

When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

Better a sovereign in squalor than a slave in splendor.

That got me a look so intense I was unable to interpret it - like the way cats sometimes fix on you. What they mean by the look is completely beyond understanding; but it's meant for you, you alone.

The goal of tyrants is tyranny, and the goal of tyranny is tyranny.

Life is a sacred bliss.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

I would love to play for Real Madrid. And I want to win a World Cup for the U.S. so bad. When the women won it, everybody went crazy. I would love to be part of something like that.

The historian amputates reality.

Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less.

If we need women in our defense forces, we must not need much defense.

I am more or less reading all the time.

My guitar player calls the process of writing lyrics based on another story, "filling up the well" when you can get inspiration from other people's art without stealing, more being influenced by it.

It's a hard thing to explain to other people because it sounds very superficial and nepotistic, but doing the interview is actually a very deep, dream-fulfilling aspect of relationship.

In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.