It will always be found that one flourishing institution exists and battens on another mouldering one. The Present itself is parasitic to this extent.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful.

At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to try to run the country.

Never let your campaigns write cheques that your website can't cash.

The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention.

The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.

The chief service I owe you, O God, is that every thought and word of mine should speak of you.

May we be as severe with ourselves over our own subtle sins as we are with the vile sins we condemn in others

The reality is that in much of industrialized societies, we are completely addicted to comfort. We are a society of addicts.

To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.

I am happy. I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve. I am happy.