Jerry Mofokeng Quotes & Sayings

Just remember that money cannot buy you happiness (although it might make misery more tolerable). — Jim Baggott

Faith affects the whole of man's nature. It commences with the conviction of the mind based on adequate evidence; it continues in the confidence of the heart or emotions based on conviction, and it is crowned in the consent of the will by means of which the conviction and confidence are expressed in conduct. — W.H. Griffith Thomas

Illumination in the outer world is to be happy no matter what is going on. In the inner world, it's more ineffable. It's harder to express. — Frederick Lenz

The past ruins the present to destroy the future. Take charge of the NOW.-RVM — R.v.m.

A man's head is not like a scallion, which will grow again if you cut it off; if you cut it off wrongly, then even if you want to correct your error, there is no way of doing it. — Mao Zedong

Did you hear that crazy man? we said.
Education is your mother? we said.
We laughed and did imitations. We thought Mr. Kondit, like more than a few of the men and boys who had crossed the desert to get to Ethiopia, had lost his mind along the way. — Dave Eggers

Poor slob without a name. It's a little inconvenient, his not having a name. But I haven't the right to give him one: he'll have to wait until he belongs to somebody. We just sort of took up by the river one day, we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I. I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together. — Truman Capote

The ways in which we are similar are far more numerous than the ways in which we are different. — Jennifer Beals

The sudden approximation of my dull, provincial life to a New Yorker cartoon was exhilarating. — Alison Bechdel

People don't want to see wrinkles, because if they see wrinkles in actors then they have to face that they have wrinkles, too. They'd rather see perfection up there. And so then you get rocket scientists who are 22 years old. — Stephanie Zimbalist

Being old enough to know better but still too young to resist mostly sucks. — Matthew Woodring Stover

Hester bade little Pearl run down to the margin of the water, and play with the shells and tangled sea-weed, until she should have talked awhile with yonder gatherer of herbs. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The head and the heart, you know, they don't always see eye to eye. — William Kent Krueger

It seemed to me that these months of watching and listening, second-guessing words and phrases, seeking so much that was new, had somehow changed me. — Sara Sheridan

In the story of the prince and the frog, there's always a frog. This story ... it has no frog. — Anne Rice