Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

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

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

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

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

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

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

Dare to risk public criticism.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

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

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

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

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.