Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
A place for everything, and everything in its place.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
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.
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.
In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.
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 more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
Jests that give pains are not jests.
I want to put a ding in the universe.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
Once you label me you negate me.
An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.