As a rule I don't like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.

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.

A will can save one’s family from being put into a quagmired pit of legal conundrum, in case of death (which may even be untimely).

I would rather stand alone in the light of truth than in the crowd filled with error.

We believe very strongly that you stop that denial of coverage by promoting choice. Let people make the decisions.

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.

I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.

I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman.

You can’t judge a man solely on his actions. Sometimes actions are nothing more than re actions.

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.