Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.
Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
It's always nice to start off with a good result.
I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be, I always forget to include myself.
I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.
I have a kitten,the drollest of all creatures that ever wore a cat's skin.