One cannot resist the lure of Africa.

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

If you are opportunist, then you are already one step closer to achieve your target!

Free will comes at a price. A price most of us do not know how to pay.

Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men

Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.

They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!

Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure.

Doing anything worthwhile takes forever.

Try your hand at everything. Figure out what your space in the world is and take it. Then you can let other people in who will celebrate that about you, not try to turn you into something else.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures