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

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

His modesty amounts to deformity.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

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.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Dare to risk public criticism.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

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.