You cannot run faster than a bullet.

There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech

I have to keep law and order and it means that I have to kill my enemies before they kill me.

The problem with me is that I am fifty or one hundred years ahead of my time. My speed is very fast. Some ministers have had to drop out of my government because they could not keep up.

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

I do not want to be controlled by any superpower. I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world, and that is why I do not let any superpower control me.

Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.

J'ai un but, une tâche, disons le mot, une passion. Le métier d'écrire en est une violente et presque indestructible."[Letter to Jules Boucoiran, 4 March 1831]

You cannot have a society of angels except in heaven

I'd rather have an inch of dog than miles of pedigree.

More and more these days I find myself pondering on how to reconcile my net income with my gross habits.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

Honestly, as you can imagine, it really isn't all that fun directing yourself, running back and forth to the monitors to see if you're terrible or not.

Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run.

I'm interested in that hybrid - the place between the real world and my imagination. There's a friction that's created between the things we imagine and the things that exist.

I think people who are attracted to the fashion industry are people who are really insecure and looking for a certain identity.