You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.

You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it or beyond it.

Africa is never the same to anyone who leaves it and returns again. It is not a land of change, but it is a land of moods and its moods are numberless. It is not fickle, but because it has mothered not only men, but races, and cradles not only cities, but civilizations - and seen them die, and seen new ones born again - Africa can be dispassionate, indifferent, warm, or cynical, replete with the weariness of too much wisdom.

I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into the air without knowing the uncertainty and the exhilaration of first-born adventure.

In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.