Better is the enemy of good.
All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
Dare to think for yourself.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
To hold a pen is to be at war.
The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.
The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.
The surest poison is time.
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
Every time I think I have reached the peak, I look up and see I still have a ways to go. But I look back and see just how far I have come.
Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.
When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
