The future is plump with promise.

Nothing will work unless you do.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

Digital attitude is about adaptability - being experimental and changeable.

The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.

I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.

I'm not going to complain about the fact that people are paying attention to my work. I suppose that wouldn't be fair.

I mean, I can cook, but I'd get very nervous having my food being judged by dinner guests.

I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

God specializes in giving people a fresh start.

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.

Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.

No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.