The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

My heart has had love and lost love but it keeps on loving. That's just what hearts do.

The beautiful thing about such moments in life is that there is so much clarity. You know what you live for and what matters.

It was strange how your world could shift on its axis and everything you trusted could invert itself in what seemed like no time at all.

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

I've found it wise to enjoy any time of truce, while recognizing it for what it is. A truce.

I didn't realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in America and talk to white folks. It never happened before.

The underlying principles or fundamentals should be so hidden away by the beauty they are eventually to support, that it would require much digging to disclose them.

The ministry and mission of the church is at the center of Christian giving.

For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system.

The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.