The irony of the human condition is that it is the narrow gate to life. Few find it because they are too fearful to look

Love and honor the world around you, and you experience life in its fullest. There is no “Other.” There is simply us. The all of us, the whole of us. The mankind of us. Anything else is a lie.

The courage to live in the present, between time and timelessness. No matter the circumstance, it is where life is found.

a man cannot hate unless he hates himself. Likewise one can only love another if they love themselves.

What your father never understood, is that what he loved most about her was her unbridled love and freedom to live her own life. He loved her colors and viewed her like paint.

You will not know love if you do not know suffering, and you will never suffer if you have never loved.

We are all walking a thin line between the sacred and the ordinary. The two are never far from each other, and sometimes they are the same

Everything does not happen for a reason. Believing this does not ease the pain for anyone. It hides it.

Don't worry about the past and don't try to figure out the future

There is no end to what we can learn. The book out thereTells us as much, and was never written with us in mind.

What we desire, more than a season or weather, is the comfortOf being strangers, at least to ourselves.

When you waste one hour of your time, you have wasted your life.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

You can do nothing you put your heart into it.

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.

Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?

I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented topic, which is part of the reason I started to write.

And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.

Idris Elba is a grand actor. He's very larger than life; he's bigger than life.

Do you want me crucified for my profanity?