At the heart of most things that look bad is something that can be good and useful.

Notice what your inner critic is saying, and issue a cease and desist! Regain control. Resist, and refuse to listen.

And at night, when it breathes delicately from silence - I love listening to your voice. It is like a heavenly graceful singing of thousands of stars.

My struggle to remain healthy is gradually killing me.

My parents are from Ghana. Until I was 17, I thought you had to go to college. I had no idea. I didn't know it was not an option.

From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

Nobody gets anything for nothing.

Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.

In short both the things we feel we need and the things available for us to buy depend largely—beyond some point, almost entirely—on the things that others choose to buy.

Two lovely berries moulded on one stem; So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart.

Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: We murder to dissect.