If one finger brings oil it soils the others.

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.

Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.

Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.

The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around....

Be patient. Everything has it's time. You can't make an orange mature right away because you are hungry

He has a heart of gold - only harder.

At your next breath each of you will probably inhale half a dozen or so of the molecules of Caesar’s last breath.

I think of myself as an amateur filmmaker, not a professional, in the sense that "amateur" means love of something, for the form.

When I die, they'll say Lady Gaga was special but her fans, her Monsters, they were really something

The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit.

I've never lied about my age.