Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may not remember. Involve me and I'll understand.

When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.

Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?

You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.

General," said the commander of the delinquent brigade, "I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring them into collision with the enemy.

I thought, I can't wait to get on the podium squad. I was in my hotel and they were in the Premier Inn living the high life!

Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

When you get to a certain age, you don't get lost. If you have a good set of pals around about you can have a great life.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

When you see something from afar, you develop a fantasy. But when you see it up close, 9 times out of 10, you wish you hadn't.

But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc.

I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.