...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.

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.

The goal that proves success is to become God’s representative

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

We only regret the chances we didn't take

When people don't take time out, they stop being productive.

All I know about method is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear I know nothing.

I have a problem sometimes with being too hyper.

Here lies Matthew Mudd, Death did him no hurt; When alive he was only Mudd, But now he's only dirt.

Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.

I cannot be a character in a bad movie. I can't be.

It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.