“You really can’t teach reading as a science. Love gets mixed up in it.”

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

I’m afraid that sometimes you’ll play lonely games too. Games you can’t win ’cause you’ll play against you.

A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it’d be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

They say I’m old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you.

Don’t live to please everyone. Embrace those who enjoy your company and to hell with the haters.

Congratulations! Today is your day!

My trouble was I had a mind but I couldn’t make it up!

For a host, above all, must be kind to his guests.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Don’t conform for the sake of pleasing others. Mold yourself into the person that you want to be.

If things start happening, don’t worry, don’t stew, just go right along and you’ll start happening too.

In my world, everyone’s a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

I think it is the responsibility of anyone involved in politics to always think of what Japan can do to contribute more to the peace and stability not just of Japan and the region but of the entire world.

The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process.

Forecasting is very difficult, especially when it involves the future.

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

The projects that I end up doing, that I want to be involved with in any way, have always been projects that will be impactful, for the most part, to my people – to black people.

It is the responsibility of anyone involved in politics to always think of what Japan can do to contribute more to the peace and stability