When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working.
There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.
Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.
Those who have been made great have first suffered.
Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.
Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.
Revolution is obstructed evolution.
The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.
Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.
I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.
You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally.