'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change

Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it's always perfectly new.

Imagination needs food like every dog and every cat and every bird and every fish.

The modern composer builds his works on the basis of truth.

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

Learn to love yourself and all that other stuff will not matter

I don't like the vampire books. I don't like any of those.

I have tremendous respect for women. I love them. I don't know why they want to step down.

Do not pretend - be. Do not promise - act. Do not dream - realize.