I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

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.

In life, we must first learn to crawl, then stand, then walk, then run, and only then, fly. We cannot crawl into flying.

I am bothered by poems I don't understand.

Without morality and virtue most things in a free society fall apart. But with them, anything is possible.

Do you have any idea how rare a twenty-three-year-old virgin is where I come from?

Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.

I used to do design before I was actually rapping. I went to art and design high school.

Do not find yourself in the music, but find the music in yourself

I've never made $20 million. I'm scared. I don't know if you gave me The Ring if I could carry it and bring it to Ozamorph, or whatever you call it.

We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.

We need more pessimism that the future might be a lot worse, and we need more optimism that the future might be better.