In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director
He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
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.
I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator
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.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
An idea is salvation by imagination
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.