Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands
When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
