“Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.”

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.

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.

Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.

What a man does not know is greater than he.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

If you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.

It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

Finding oneself and one’s path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.

Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.

I have seen many great places in my life, But I choose the one that has you in it.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.