Knowledge is awareness, and to it are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. But sometimes one is guided through the maze by intuition. One is led by something felt on the wind, something seen in the stars, something that calls from the wasteland to the spirit.

I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.

When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that you love her. Of these the second is more important, for if you tell a woman you love her, she will certainly feed you.

It is better to fear a little. One is cautious then.

There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.

A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.

A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.