If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

A jug fills drop by drop.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.