Murder begins where self-defense ends.

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.

One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.

And for tired eyes every light is too bright, and for tired lips every breath too heavy, and for tired ears every word too much.

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.

The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.

The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.

Reform is usually possible only once a sense of crisis takes hold.... In fact, crises are such valuable opportunities that a wise leader often prolongs a sense of emergency on purpose.

Becoming an influential personality at work is much more important than becoming a hardworking person!

The death of a dog may not by some be regarded as a tragedy, but some dogs are more worthy than some men, and can be more justly mourned.

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Do you have any bald ice cream?

My approach to writing and recording now is pretty much the same as when I started. Except now I worry even less about what people will think of what I made. And I am not drunk.

The only perfect climate is bed.

If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.

Out in the field, you haven't got anyone whispering into your ear saying all sorts of things, you've got to do it yourself.

I feel that it's important to fail now and again. For instance, if I go for a job and I don't get it, that makes me not a better person, but more balanced, more aware of what life is really like.