He who fights for a ne'er-do-well has nothing to show for it except a head covered in earth and grime.

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.

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

If you got on your knees and counted all of the blessings, goodness, grace, favour and kindness in your life, you would find that you would exhaust the whole day and will still have more to share.

My cup was already brimming before I met him —after it runneth over.

I know Sir John will go though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.

I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.

I don't sense an [Barack] Obama party. I think politics is transactional for him.

Value inner attunement as much as you value outer attainment.

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

I try not to live in the past...but...sometimes the past lives in me

First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate.