We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.

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.

It is important to know what you don't want.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.

In every high school, there is a clique.

Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.

Judges were not the biggest issue for most voters in Georgia in 2002.

Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.

Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it.

I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

I think it just came with me evolving as a person and me understanding that it's not right to judge or to say anything derogatory about other people, especially if I don't know them.