Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them.

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

History is a record of exploded ideas.

In war the first principle is to disobey orders. Any fool can obey orders!

Inconsistency is the bugbear of fools! I wouldn't give a damn for a fellow who couldn't change his mind with a change of conditions.

So what? All writers are lunatics!

Life is a happy journey.

Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess.

God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

Japan has a low crime rate, unless you count the fact that approximately every fifteen minutes the entire Cabinet gets indicted for taking bribes.

over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

The snow and the storm destroy the flower; but its seed they cannot kill.

That's what it is to be a grandma. All fun and no stress.

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

Life is to be lived, not controlled.