You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.

Nobody has ever measured even poets, how much a heart can hold.

I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at de sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them.

Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it’s dark.

Sit quiety, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.

Lomhlaba Unzima, Lohmhlaba. This world is a harsh place, this world.

As you grow older, you’ll find the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do.

As you grow older, you’ll find the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do.

If you pump casually, you will pump forever. Pump hard to begin with and keep it up until you get that water flowing. Then a great deal will happen.

Every sale has five basic obstacles no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

Confidence is Going after Moby Dick in a rowboat, And taking the tarter sauce with you. A Bullfighter who goes in the ring with mustard on his sword.