Queen of Katwe

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

What if… everything you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for?

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.

A man is a god in ruins.

Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don’t say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. A lady of my acquaintance said, I don’t care so much for what they say as I do for what makes them say it.

There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.