Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.
