I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

You learn so much from taking chances, whether they work out or not. Either way, you can grow from the experience and become stronger and smarter.

Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.

We all must follow a different path to let our light shine, and that's what makes us so unpredictable and unique.

The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education

I keep learning, listening, growing and experimenting.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

Love your curves and all your edges All your perfect imperfections

The future started yesterday, and we're already late.

We're just ordinary people. We don't know which way to go.

When something seems wrong in your life, the only way to have resolution with it is to let it go. Trying to make it right keeps it wrong.

The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.

As far as a career legacy, I just want to be known as the guy everyone had to watch for, constantly.

When I came out of the Depression, I came out of it with a different point of view as to what constituted success. And that was even just even personal success.

There should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months.

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it

The depth of the middle class is waning as the polarization of society is in progress.

The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.

Gods given us all strengths and gifts.

My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.