Life is not fair and people are not equal.

Men should never give up. I never do. I would hate to lose.

People cannot live completely by themselves.

One must always be civic-minded.

Without a huge shock, the sleepy-head, ignorant Japanese will never wake up.

Some dreams are best not to wake up from.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

Even coal shimmers in the light

Virtue, should there be anyone who still ignores the fact, always finds pitfalls on the extremely difficult path of perfection, but sin and vice are so favoured by fortune...

I have been tried and condemned without a hearing, and I suppose I shall have to go to the execution.

We've got no hate for each other [in the band Stone Roses], and we never have.

They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults.

Don't just let your business or your job make something for you; let it make something of you.

I never like to be the person trying to hard sell, saying, "This is why you should watch it." I know that my fans, who have followed me for years, want to know what I'm doing.

That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it in order to write it down, I change it, and I can't ever get it back.

Our own GOP machine, the establishment, they who would assemble the political landscape, they're attacking their own front-runner.