A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

It's okay. You're going to save me, Miss Maylene." The girl gave her a genuine look of happiness. "I know it. I knew if I found you everything would be okay.

Even if you are a loser today, it doesn’t mean that you cannot change yourself

In all, Nigeria belongs to us all and we have a personal responsibility to see that it succeeds

I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

Like I always say, there's no "I" in "team." There is a "me," though, if you jumble it up.

Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything.

The materials shape your idea.

Comedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from the ugliness of this world.

We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.