Any information is valuable to the degree that you can use it.

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.

Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.

China, slavishly dedicated to ancient scholars, incapable of generating within herself sufficient rulers to continue, without bloodshed, a nation.

The only way you can control people is to lie to them. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.

One of the reasons they [the Japanese] have bad eyesight is probably these microscopic characters [furigana] which have many lines and strokes to them.& We wonder why they went mad and bombed Pearl Harbor when they knew they couldn't win. That [the Japanese language] would be a reason.

Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.