The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.

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.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.

In the light of trust, as it develops slowly over time, you will find that you are a privileged child of the universe, entirely safe, entirely supported, entirely loved.

If you would be powerful pretend to be powerful.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.

If you are in an improv jazz ensemble or a small chamber group, you learn to think fast on your feet and how to be flexible and to collaborate and compromise, and that may yield a creative outcome.

They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.

Religion is 'twixt God and my own soul, Nor saint, nor sage, can boundless thought control.

I like sparkles; I think I'm a magpie.

The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.