Freedom is from within.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

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

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

My specialty is detached malevolence.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

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

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Be that self which one truly is.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.