Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

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 love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

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

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.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

That which costs little is less valued.

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

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

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.