Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

By words the mind is winged.

When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

God lives in the place of praise. If we want to be where He is, we need to go to His address.

Do not fear mistakes, there are none.

When sorrow knocks at your door, tell it you're busy finding happiness.

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'.

It's overwhelming. I feel as if I am living in an illusion a dream where all things are possible. Amazing things do happen I know but always to someone else always in some far off place and time.

There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.

In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.

Love is the essential energy of the universe. It is the force that puts the stars in the firmament, and it makes the blood run through the veins.