Success is not a romantic word, it's an ugly world.

The end of love looks like the beginning of war

Life is a dream. We wake up when we die

Christianity has so much taken roots among us that drunkards sing gospel songs on their way home

In leadership, the way up is down. Serve before you get served

You need to have the means to impose yourself

The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself

Women understand the workings of nature than men. They trust in their instincts while men consider this behavior weakness.

Peace is something you only have when your enemy is gone. Either after you have turned him into a friend or vanquished him

It's useless to disarm the hands, if the heart remains armed

A man should not compete with his wife in talk but in silence

It's a mind, it works by metaphor.

Except for in politics, no one likes to follow an idea without a firm base to walk on

I left my record label, Polydor, by mutual agreement, but I'm going to carry on with my singing career.

When a regular person gets sick, they take an aspirin. When a writer gets sick, they take notes.

Every creative person can draft into service those around them who exhibit the right mixture of intelligence, insight, and grace.

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

I'm not really interested in thinking about marriage or kids at all.