Time is a very shadow that passeth away.

A faithful friend is the medicine of life.

A new friend is like new wine when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.

What thou thyself hatest do to no man.

Try your best to make peace with as many people that are willing to make peace with you. Life is definitely much better with less enemies.

The final goal ... is to grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world.

The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.

Opening her eyes again, and seeing her husband's face across the table, she leaned forward to give it a pat on the cheek, and sat down to supper, declaring it to be the best face in the world.

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

I love the season well When forest glades are teeming with bright forms, Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell The coming of storms.

I always think the great parts outlive the actors that play them and that's a stage tradition, that goes back hundreds of years and it should be that way.

The white man will keep on granting tokenism; a few big Negroes will get big jobs, but the black masses will catch hell as long as they stay in the white man's house.

The only freedom left is the freedom to starve.

It is passivity that dulls feeling.