If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community?

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.

Some people think that the world revolves around them but even the Sun is not the center of the Universe.

And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on.

Give back to the world at least what you've received.

I've known lots of people that are talented and nothing happens. It's not about talent, it's relentless drive.

Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.

Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?

I have a history with charismatic, attractive men who just wear me out.

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead, And the apparel of the grave.

Here is another marvy glimpse into the gothic basement that I call my mind.