"What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing."

“Life is not fair and people are not equal.”

Source : "No Surrender: My Thirty-year War". Book by Hiroo Onoda, www.japantimes.co.jp. 1974.

“Life is just a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity.”

“I would suggest to my honourable Friend that the foreign investor is at least as discouraged by high national debt for that, as all example shows, is the surest precursor of high taxation.”

Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 213), March 24, 1966.

“Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic.”

“What’s her name? Claire, what’s her name?”

“Normally, we see characters that have God complexes. How interesting, I thought, it would be to capitalize on that. And say, OK, well fine, you have a God complex, well this person has a Satan complex. And the doctor chooses to treat him scientifically.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.”

“I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.”

Source : "This week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. September 12, 2010.