There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.

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.

A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.

It’s illegal to yell ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theater, right?” “It is.” “Well, I’ve whispered ‘Racism’ in a post-racial world.

I floor the gas pedal. The Sonoramic Commando V-8 growls like an angry tiger and leapfrogs us ahead of the traffic.

Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.

There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.

I don’t understand how real Christians let that little f--ker get away with that.

There is no self, yet we all exist. All phenomena are "empty," yet they have Buddha nature.

The surest way to get what you need is to communicate.

A big producer can survive price fluctuations on the world market. A small farmer can't.

If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.