What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

I do not know about you. But, I prefer a life spent making mistakes than a life making none.

We have to dissolve all the denominations in order to form from them the greater denomination of the homeland.

Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth.

My mind reels with sarcastic replies.

It's always been kind of weird to me because when you give someone an autograph, you're looking down at a piece of paper and once you sign it the person moves on.

One definition of maturity is learning to delay pleasure.

Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people.

The faster you work, the better off you're going to be.

Meeting someone is God's doing, but parting is what humans do themselves.

When a leader has deployed a private army, that is one definition of a police state. Another is when the president, or a leader, has his own treasury.