Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope in the one case we have nothing to lose in the other everything to gain.

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.

It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

Tact is good taste in action.

Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.

Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.

Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.

The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.

It is easier to win love than to keep it.

To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.

We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.

The original stories are mined out, and all that’s left is fool’s gold.

Dogs do know how comfortable you are with yourself, how happy you are, how fearful you are, and what is missing inside of you.

In France I'm very private, I don't like talking about my life, and I imagined that people would think that I'm now an open book.

Ecstasy can be painful when it's intense enough, when the kundalini surges enough. The ecstasy is so complete, it's overwhelming sometimes.

Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.

There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.

I find it hard to take chances that might mean making bad decisions.

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.