Queen of Katwe

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

To choose time is to save time.

Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.

All his life has he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.

The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it… Beware of me, it says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

The triumphs of peace have been in some proximity to war. Whilst the hand was still familiar with the sword-hilt, whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated; the compression and tension of these stern conditions is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times, except by some analogous vigor drawn from occupations as hardy as war.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.

It happened once that a youth and a maiden beheld each other in a public assembly for the first time

Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.