The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion.

A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.

Only courageous hearts can endure the bitterness of truth.

Anything that comes your way by force was not meant for you. Everything that locates you on it's own was yours and will be yours forever.

There are things you need to know that you already know.

Innocence is the beginning of ignorance. Experience is the end of stupidity.

Knowledge is a light burden. Ignorance...a heavy bliss.

Every Intelligent person was once a fool.

The fear of losing anything is the inability to prepare for the best.

If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you'd be wasting your time while others are learning how to climb the tree

Division and separation means no harm to the society. It makes everyone unique.

When you don't have a job (requiring reading) and you are doing your own reading you've got deep psychological questions. As deep as those of a little boy.

Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.

If a hippo ever wants to fight, just walk away.

TV has been very good to me, and I hope I've been good to it, but I also love film.

Big black guys fear air travel almost as much as old white women fear big black guys.

I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.

A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.

My own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, "No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.

I encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.