Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. That's not the way my people rear their children. They let them experience the world as it is.

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.

When you smile, a bird finds her wings to fly.

As you abide in Christ, you will have strength for today’s trials as well as for all tomorrow’s challenges.

Self-awareness is the key to find our uniqueness. The latter increases our chance to succeed in our personal, career, and business lives...

All I know is that the first step is to create a vision, because when you see the vision – the beautiful vision – that creates the want power.

It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.

When I am in pain, I must know that beauty always has been and always will be. This is as close to eternity as I need to be.

Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.

At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.

I am a very lucky artist in the sense that I have had all my life a lot of opportunities to do what I want to do.

I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.