Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe?.. What is lacking now are goods on the shelves - that is all.

Sometimes you look back at girls you spent money on rather than send it to your mum and you realise witchcraft is real

South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he’s a foreigner

Dont fight even over girlfriends. The country is full of beautiful women. If you cant get one, come to Mugabe for assistance.

The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.

I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.

If you take men and lock them in a house for five years and tell them to come up with two children and they fail to do that, then we will chop off their heads.

Don't drink at all, don't smoke, you must exercise and eat vegetables and fruit.

Only God who appointed me will remove me.

What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors.

We have said we will never collapse, never ever. We may have our droughts, our poverty, but as a people we shall never collapse, never ever.

The memory will most likely come to me when I least expect it. When I'm in the middle of something else.

Wander around wonder for awhile and awaken wisdom within.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

I've come to believe that every one who reaches the best that life holds for him reaches it through some Desert of Waiting.

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.

For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.

A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. He hoped I would see my way to more serious work and would find myself turning towards medicine, law, or business.

I got married to Chris Sarandon, who was a graduate student, and he knew everything at that point, I thought, because he was older. He introduced me to poetry and black-and-white movies.

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.