When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.

To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.

I had learned that there were times when fighting was impossible, when the best thing to do was to wait and to learn.

We are never really beyond it... slavery continues to this day.

Never have I met a person doing terrible things who would meet my own eyes peacefully. To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.

You must learn to respect," Papa said. But I do not respect her," I said. Papa paused for a moment, and patted my leg. "Then you must learn to hide your disrespect.

Redemption is invented by the sinner.

Sometimes a deal with the devil is better than no deal at all.

Some say that I was once uncommonly beautiful, but I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.

Today you live, child. Tomorrow, you dream.

beware the clever man that makes the wrong look right

Be direct and sure of the path you tread, but not so sure that you pass the paths better suited to your feet, brother.

Fun things are fun.

There is nothing more secure in a relationship than a sense of insecurity.

Our greatest good and what we least can spare is hope.

If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.

You have to be a little crazy to be a dancer.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

One hand washeth another, both the face. [Lat., Una mano lava l'altra, ed ambedue lavano il volto.]

One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.

Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.