Just think of the work you've set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.

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.

People believe what they are told.

To make sense of it - that's the challenge. To bear witness to the death, without being broken by the weight of it.

PricklyWhen I'm feelingporcupine-y, I get nasty, I get whiny.Stay away orI might stick you.My sharp words arequills to prick you.

Snoopy didn't start off being a Beagle. It's just that 'beagle' is a funny word.

I had to work harder. I couldn't do the social thing, and play the game the others were playing. I had to work that much harder and handle the 'evils' by doing good work.

I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.

I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.

You're your own play.

A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.

We do not need to be able to say what "human nature" is in order to be able to say that some training is "against human nature.