My mother took the measure of what could be built with the material she'd been given, and she built it.

This is the trouble with origin hunting. There are so many origins.

If you're afraid of heights, lean over a railing. If you're afraid of germs, lick a floor. But what do you do if your greatest fear is of being afraid?

I felt so skinless at times! Things hit me so hard!

Was it enough to wear the night with me just once? I am unsatisfied.

If you can remember why you started, then you will know why you must continue.

The sum of the particular intentions of God is the universe itself.

The great thing about taking big chances when you're younger is you have less to lose, and you don't know as much. So you take big swings.

Anything worth having is worth going for- all the way.

Love is a feeling of givingness with no thought of receiving any return for it.

We seem to have lost. We have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have kept faith with the past, and handed on a tradition to the future.

This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants.

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.