So far there is not a single Gambian or dissidents from Britain who came to join to them (the coup plotters); so I am very sorry.

“Altogether, if I'd been looking at nothing but the media all these years, I would be a much more discouraged person-especially given the notion that only conflict is news, and that objectivity means being evenhandedly negative.” 

“Dress like you are going to meet your worst enemy today.”

“The best things in life are free. The second-best are very expensive.”

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....

Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that’s when you’re most beautiful.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Detachment is not that you should own nothing but that nothing should own you

The world is merciless, and it’s also very beautiful.

When you leave a beautiful place, you carry it with you wherever you go.

But he who dares not grasp the thorn. Should never crave the rose.

Do not beautify your appearance, but be beautiful in your way of life.

How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!

At any rate, I am convinced that He does not play dice.

A spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

If you see something beautiful in someone, speak it.

Madame, beauty is always queen, and the whole world her empire.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

Butterflies come to pretty flowers.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.