If it were left to men, there'd be nothing in the world but mating and squabbling.

Agni was her brother and she loved him, and he often understood her, but he was a man. In the end he thought as a man thinks, of owning and mastering.

To declare a thing is to possess it.

If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.

I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years.

Life is an irritation.

He is the richest man in the esteem of the world who has gotten the most. He is the richest man in the esteem of Heaven who has given the most.

However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry.

Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.

Put anger aside. It is not a solution. Patience and love is a solution. With compassion and action, together we can end slavery.

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.