...colonialism in Africa was inevitable since the fittest and most creative person was the one that would be destined to lead.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

Of course you know the miracle of AIDS, we all do. It's the only disease that turns fruits into vegetables.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.

I felt like an integral part of my being had just been ripped out of me, only to have it replaced with something that did not belong.

Do not make promises when you are happy, either way never make decisions when you are angry. Stay calm.

The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.

I'm only sort of a politician.

In the end, everything is simple.

Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.

I do not give a damn what I look like, I don't. I wish I could pay attention because Gwen Stefani, say, looks flawless. Of course, when I'm on red carpets, I'm nervous, sweaty, and weird.

Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distills an idea.

I didn't want to hurt you," she blurted. "I never wanted to be someone you would regret. I'm not afraid for me. I'm afraid for you.