Kill one man, and you are murderer.

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

To be adult is to be alone.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.

If you want to fly, wear the wing of wisdom.

You are here to feel the joy of life by empowering, enabling, enlightening humanity so that humanity may find its own joy.

With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it's there. Better late than never.

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!

Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

If it isn't a success, that still wouldn't be grounds for divorce.

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

I believe that when you go into a gallery or a museum, the most powerful pieces are the ones that don't have the words in the corner that distract you from the larger piece.

Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.