“If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own. If you don’t like what somebody says, say what it is you don’t like.”

We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.

An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.

The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.

There is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens – whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.

I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.

Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache

If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.

My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.

Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum… The story is our escort. Without it we are blind… It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.

You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.

Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.

Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.

Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.

With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.

And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.

If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

Your words and wishes are cheap if they do not find expression in your actual gifts.