True love is not in possessions or obsessions

I've always been just me, but I was the last to know that it was all right.

Feeling grateful is good

It isn’t what you have in your pocket that makes you thankful, but what you have in your heart. —Unknown

Do your job well without expecting any appreciation

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It’s like your shadow. It follows you everywhere. -Komura

Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.

Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.

Common sense has become an uncommon virtue.

I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been something I was saying for a long time.

We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.

I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student League, or be a dancer. So that was my plan. Some plan. And I had no money.

I see movies all the time that manipulate you by playing a high note on the piano or some string instrument, and suddenly you're crying. I'm sick of being told what to think.

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.