“We see the man when we look at the monkey; we see the monkey when we look at the man!”

Every time you go to the zoo, you prolong the captivity of the animals there! If no one goes to the zoos, there will be no zoos! Destroying the evil is very simple and it is in your hand!

Be as soft as possible, if something good and wise wants to shape you; be as hard as possible, if something bad and foolish wants to shape you!

When the waves are crazy, the land is prettier!

In a conservative old town, say something new and be prepared for the stones!

Set your affection to infinity and your hate to zero!

Master Alfred de Musset says great artists have no country. They have also no world! They belong to the space, to the universe, to anything infinite!

Doing goodness is good only when you don’t expect anything in return; not a medal, not even a simple thanking!

If you have a guru, leave him; if you don’t have, get one. In other words, keep changing your gurus! Ocean’s wisdom comes from knowing many ships and many fishes, many storms and many waves!

If you want to give an advice to someone, you must first be somebody.

For a great willpower, no road has length!

Dancing of the autumn leaves on the surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake!

Sincere wishes come true.

Man must spend much more time in extraordinary natural places to grasp much better how remarkable our planet is and to realise what a great privilege and what an enormous joy to be living here!

If you love the roses, that is ordinary; if you love the weeds, that is extraordinary! Rather than being common, be extraordinary!

Falling in love is like submerging beneath the ocean with a submarine; you leave the outside world and wander in the silence of dimness.

Protected by hundred bodyguards, even a chick can show some courage! That’s also the secret of why some head of states look brave!

My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

Our elders said back then that if Black folks really wanted to see Change, they had to step up to the plate and do it themselves. Somebody has to be First. Will that be you?

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

There’s no vocabulary For love within a family, love that’s lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.

She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.

Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.