A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?

In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

stand often in the company of dreamers: they tickle your common sense & believe you can achieve things which are impossible.

There were lots of things to stop and see - and then it was time to go, always time to go.

Winter makes us know the warmth of a fire.

Prioritizing hurt, a reminder that the clock was ticking, that some things would be left undone.

Bop is no love-child of jazz.

What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.

No matter whether a person belongs to the upper ranks or the lower, if he has not put his life on the line at least once he has cause for shame.

My wife a great driver, she once hit a deer. It was in a zoo. There is a pair of shoes on the dashboard. They belong to the last guy she hit

The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.