Let's face it - think of Africa and the first images that come to mind are of war poverty famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations which in their day were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter he can only be a builder.

No human being however great or powerful was ever so free as a fish.

I try something new every night. It's an hour show if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

Idle people are often bored and bored people unless they sleep a lot are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

Don't get involved in partial problems but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem even if this view is still not a clear one.

Police and firefighters are great but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.

The philosopher has never killed any priests whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.