No man however great is greater than his people

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.

One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.

‎The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

I'm opposed to any sport that reduces the coefficient of friction between me and the ground.

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception

My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

It's okay to change your mind. About a feeling, a person, a promise of love.

As soon as you start focusing on the negative you're dead.

What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.

I have never been one to look beyond today.