An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.

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.

And from the midst of cheerless gloomI passed to bright unclouded day.

Everyone wants to impress somebody...- That's how it works!

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Thank God for Darwin, eh?

Whether it's Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde, they're brilliant with genius bon mots. Of course, I find them extraordinary.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.

Do you know that there's hardly anyone left of last year's Caucasian governments? I've tried to stop it, but in vain. Yet they can't all be Trotskyites and traitors.

Governance is everything. Without governance we have nothing

Some children are wiser than adults.