The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light.

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

Judging a person's maturity by the number of years they've lived is misleading. This is because people mature at different rates.

Read a different Africa. Love a vibrant Africa.

I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.

I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter how low it gets, something good will come along - something always comes out of that dark period.

Do I believe in giving up? No, I don't.

Too many employers have said that they are unable to find skilled workers.

Better hold the hand for coin, though small, Than lose, for one half a dang, it all.

I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.

But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete.