We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.

It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.

I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.

No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.

Africa, amongst the continents, will teach it to you: that God and the Devil are one, the majesty coeternal, not two uncreated but one uncreated, and the Natives neither confounded the persons nor divided the substance.

I do not see eye to eye with the camera.