Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

There were the days of so-called free love ... but it didn't take long to discover that love is not free. Sooner or later it exacts its price.

We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.

Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.

For even in the pit of darkness, the beacon of humanity can always shine through.

I do not know how to thank you.''I can tell you, ' said Obierika. 'Kill one of your sons for me.''That will not be enough, ' said Okonkwo.'Then kill yourself, ' said Obierika.

A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.

I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.

Religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table.

Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself.

Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm the right person, and I should know if I want to do a movie.

I don't need faith. I have experience.

Imagination is the doorway you walk through into every future moment. Are you walking through doorways to pain or to joy?

It is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by an emotion it can never have enough of it.