Almost any age is better than twenty-two.

I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

Nurture the vision God has put in you

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.

Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read, ' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself.

We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.

A person at an eminent position does not need money. A chairman of a big company or something like that, I can’t buy him and the country does not have enough money to ‘buy’ him.

I know I'm probably much too late to try and apologize for my mistakes.

Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.

Wrap up the 20th century; Fred Astaire is gone.

I really hated being the Norwegian girl in every single conversation in Australia, so I tried to make my Norwegian-ness invisible, speaking like whoever was around me.