You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

Think champagne, drink champagne!

The solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.

Being sleep-derived not only hurts you at work, it hurts your health. You need to value yourself enough to have good sleep hygiene.

There's a time for casting silver; a time for casting cannon. If that isn't in the red, it should be!

If peace is not In Nature's beauty, Then where is it, where?