To look in the mirror and like what you see, even when it doesn't look like your idea of beauty.

Don't go getting full of yourself becuase once you do, somebody's going to come and let the wind out of your sails

Gotta realize that all you are is all you got.

Be a true traveller, don't be a temporary tourist.

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

So long divided and so differently situated, the ties of blood were little more than nothing.

When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.

Burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars. And we are burning in Africa, every single year, more than one billion hectares.

I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.

If you think about how long it takes to write a piece of music for an orchestra, it's outrageous to me, outrageous.

Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.

Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.