If I'm going to a new country, I try to learn something about the language and the culture, so I don't just go bumbling over things.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.

To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do.

I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you. But if you're in love with the thing, it may run like hell away from you.

I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.