[Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth?

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.

Slaves in the past were captured by force

If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.

The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.

Basically, success the way we've defined it is no longer sustainable. It's no longer sustainable for human beings or for societies.

I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.

Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.

There can be differences of opinion without there being personal differences.

People "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?"

Life is a little different from what you would read in the mainstream media inside the White House.

We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage--always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others.