For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

I wanted her to have the full, long life that every parent promises his or her child by the simple act of bringing that child into the world.

It is impossible to examine questions we refuse to ask.

Learn to recognize omens, and follow them

I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.

One of the nicest satisfactions you can have is to be able to give something back to your parents when they've given so much to you.

Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others is the general feature of our society.

Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

Treating everyone she met like family, and burying needless critism of others so deep beneath the soil of everyday living that only kindness ever saw the light.

Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.

Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.