What is to give light must endure burning.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.