People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.

I am afraid of people because they want me to lead the same kind of life as they do. They want me to dance jolly and cheerful things. I do not like jollity. I love life.

I have come to the conclusion that it is better to be silent than to speak.

I am not crying, but have tears in my heart.

They are stupid, they are beasts, they are meat, they are death. I am talking simply but without any affectation.

Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being free from flatterers.

To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage. The coward despairs.

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

Risk taking and the drive to pursue innovative ideas are the fuel that stokes the entrepreneurial spirit.

Life is unfair. And it's not fair that life is unfair.

I was burned so many times that I stopped giving interviews. In other words, if my words ended up in print, they were twisted in an indescribable fashion.

The President reminded us that the war in Iraq is a central battlefield in the war on terror that began the morning of September the 11th.

I was walking an average of about two and a half miles a day, which is still more than most Americans. Most Americans don't even walk that.

I know there's bands that might write something that sounds like The Smiths, and they'll go, 'Oh, it sounds like The Smiths, we've got to make it sound not like The Smiths.'

If you talked to others the way you talk to yourself, would you have any friends?