A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

Does this world feel like hell to you? Of course it does, because it is.

I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

If I'm going to spend the whole night waiting for you guys to stop flirting and shoot each other, I want to at least be entertained.

I am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed.

It's no shame to fall down, but it is a shame to just stay down.

Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.

It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms.

I will build you a castle with a tower so high it reaches the moon.

I might be an ambassador.

Not only are there African accomplices inside the imperialist system, but every African has a responsibility to understand the system and work for its overthrow.