I am service-centric. I always intend to leave places better than I find them..

I can't worry about what other people are saying about me. At the end of the day, it's just their opinions, but if I said I don't hear it, or it does….

Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating..

I respect religion and will respect any religion..

Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories, e.g., the ….

I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie..

The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end..

I'm not hooked on cognac, but I've enjoyed it over the years..

I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics..

Everyone lies about sex, more or less, to themselves if not to others, to others if not to themselves, exaggerating its importance or minimizing its ….

You, yesterday, did the usual things, just as any day, You don't know if it's worth remembering. You would prefer to remember, there lying in the hal….

Where I came from, no one was a writer..

Whether men lie, or say true, it is with one and the same object..

Nostalgia is a seductive liar..

A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes..

One of the greatest dangers to peace lies in the economic pressure to which people find themselves subjected. One of the most practical things to be ….

Underconfidence breeds underachievement..

I think even lying on my bed I can still do something..

Relationships are based on trust until you meet someone new..

The power of equations lies in the philosophically difficult correspondence between mathematics, a collective creation of human minds, and an externa….

My hands and ears get me where I need to go..