"The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing."

"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."

"The talent is in the choices."

"There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever."

"I became insane, with long periods of horrible sanity."

"Children should neither be seen nor heard from - ever again."

"There cannot be friendship without equality."

"I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not."

"Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves."

"Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example."

"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

"There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction."