Chinese Proverb

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

He who seeks revenge should remember to dig two graves

One dog barks at something. And a hundred dogs bark at the sound.

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

I am from the planet of elegance.

I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, that have been harassed, and I think it’s a terrible, terrible thing.

[Moving to the West] was a culture shock. I had never seen cereal before! We had cottage cheese and pancakes in Russia, not colorful circles that came in cardboard boxes.

I’d never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field I was in, I didn’t meet many intellectual people anyway. I always had this dream of meeting an artist, an artist girl who would be like me. And I thought it was a myth, but then I met Yoko and that was it.

I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

You’ve got to teach youngsters the difference between right and wrong, but you shouldn’t try to poke it down their throats. Let them ask the questions and then give them the answers.

Change isn’t a light switch; it’s slow and gradual.

I’m grateful for all the breaks and honors and opportunities I’ve had, but I always believe I won’t have it made until the humblest black kid in the most remote backwoods of America has it made.

Love is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.

Pardon me if I haunt you tonight.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong– or absolutely right.

Loving smart means believing in you, your worth and your value.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, take the calculated risk, and take action!