We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.

It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Playing the game and unfortunately playing the gangster game is very profitable.

Sea Shepherd is to terrorism what Groucho was to Marxism.

Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.

People change, they grow.

I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again.

I love nothing more than to perform my songs in front of a live audience. And whatever I'm doing is driven toward finding or writing songs and putting out hit songs that drive people coming to see me live. Because, at the end of the day, that's what I enjoy the most.

What my home life is like now is great.

You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

I remember the first time I put on the Army uniform. I just felt like a totally different person - I felt proud.

I wrote a book, and I just love it when people come up to me and say, 'I read your book and loved it.'

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.

Obviously, you've never seen a woman skydiving in a hoop skirt.

Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.

I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

It's a simple thing to break a string, but you cannot hope to break a rope.

Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.

Of the two, I considered it more important to avoid a war with England about Oregon than a war with Mexico, important as I thought it was to avoid that.

It's all about balance, and I have so much happiness in my career and am fortunate to travel the world and see so many amazing things - it will also be nice to be anchored to something grounded and in the same place. Raising a family will be a wonderful part of that.