Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.

I'm not against vodka - they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course wasn't true.

I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.

We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.

I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself.

No achievement can be higher than that of working in harmony with other nations so that the lash of war may be lifted from our backs and a peace of lasting friendship descend upon us.

I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.

Never give up and take nothing for granted in life.

They say that moving is one of the most stressful things in life. Death in the family is the second most stressful, and moving your dead spouse is the third.

It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it.

Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.

I'm not trying to ally myself with the rock stars of the universe.