Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure.

I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.

The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.

The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.

Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.

Doctor Livingstone, I presume?

Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful compost of the garden, if unwatched.

The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.

We tend to forget that words are, themselves, ideas. They might be called ideas in a state of suspended animation. When the words are mastered the ideas tend to come alive again.

In the midst of life, we are in death.

Freedom is willpower to act for a change.

I find great strength in overcoming struggle’s of life.

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

I train six to seven hours during the three separate sessions every day while in camp.

Truth is not far away. It is nearer than near. There is no need to attain it, since not one of your steps leads away from it.

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

My advice for other female directors: don't think of your gender as a handicap. Don't think about it at all. Just tell the best story you can, and don't stop until you do.

to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.