He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

Love and compassion ... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being.

The key point is kindness. With kindness one will have inner peace. Through inner peace, world peace can one day be a reality.

I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.

I've never been starstruck but I may have wanted to strike a star once or twice.

A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.

For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors

You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.

I like to write my lyrics on clay tablets.