Although it’s good to try new things and to keep an open mind, it’s also extremely important to stay true to who you really are.

The great thing about baseball is that anyone can be a hero on any given day

A college degree is not essential, but if you’re already in college, and if it’s at all possible, you should definitely try to finish. In college, you have a very supportive community right there, and it can give you opportunities to try out new things.

The most important thing is to listen, not to respond

World War II was an injury that incapacitated authors. It was something supernatural, merciless.

The world will be saved by beauty.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

When you go to an oasis, you go there to supply yourself with the vital things you are missing, things that you need

Among all the commodities that exist in this earthly world, Gold stands as the most precious one.

The Indians of the new world are too naive and innocent. It won’t be challenging to take them down.

The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.

One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems – where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?

It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God has given me an eternity in which to learn more.

There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past.

As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is not good for my health – food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first, I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is Love of Oneself.

I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disninterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.

I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum

These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose

Discipline must conform to the nature of things in their suchness

Sex appeal is something that you feel deep down inside. It’s suggested rather than shown. I’m not as well-stacked as Sophia Loren or Gina Lollobrigida, but there is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

Obviously, I’ve made statements that were ludicrous and crazy and outrageous and all those things, because that’s the way I always was.

My ideas are of an indisputable logic; The only thing that makes me doubt is that they have not been applied previously

This week I’ve been reading a lot and doing little work. That’s the way things ought to be. That’s surely the road to success

I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren’t there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can’t have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.

Precious things are for those that can prize them

Never soar aloft on an enemy’s pinions

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn’t it never was.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer

There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it

I come from nothing, so when I make something out of myself, it’s like I’m making history.

I like taking risks. I like trying new things, whether it be style or restaurants or whatever.