Those whose kernels were cracked by benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.

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.

Change is not something you do. Change is something you allow.

Sweetheart, my heart is your home, you can always stay there.

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

The trail of "secret migration" was a shock to me. I knew a little about the difficulties, just bits of news in the media.

No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research.

Go with your gut, but use your head.

I don't have a publicist. I don't go to events or self-promote, or endorse things, or whatever it is people are meant to do in that world.

And in today already walks tomorrow.

Being 5' 10", I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball. So that gave me the hunger and the fire to say, Oh yeah? I'd just hit the crap out of the ball.