I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

People expect that they should be understood by you but seldom put in an effort to understand you.

I want my fair share and thats All of it!

The music of Bach is without doubt the most sacred gift to the world of art.

Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon.

It's not like I'm sitting at home coming up with some secret beauty plan. I try to eat fruit and be healthy. If I'm feeling a bit sickly, I usually get a good spray tan.

The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life.

I don't know how exactly but I'm maybe perverse in the sense that I like being disappointed in something on a daily basis. Because it means that I'm still not jaded.

There is no happiness until the mind is still. The cause of all sickness and sadness is the fluctuation of the mind.

If something happens to me, you're going to hear about it. I only know how to write songs about my life.

Knowledge without understanding is useless.