To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers or both.

To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.

When we call on God, he bends down His ear to listen, as a father bends down to listen to his little child.

The devil makes a great deal of the religion we see.

great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life.

But the way to wealth through the quill seems long.

The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.

To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers-or both.

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.

Sooner or later, all men will do and know all things.

Come to Africa and help! Wherever you may be in the world, there is something you can give back to the continent that gave you a name and an identity, at least.

Better to die than to live in fear.

Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.

We still need to have one beautiful lady standing there.

I am just going outside and I may be some time

All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.

One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.

Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire.