There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

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.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

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

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.