Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

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.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

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

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.