The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

Unaanzaje ku judge kwanini nipo hivi wakati kila mtu ana uniqueness pengine nzuri au mbaya

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.

Part 3 BACK TO SCHOOL (THE NORMAL KIND)

It's our God forsaken right to be loved, loved, loved.

Where there is no want, there is usually much wantonness.

While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.

And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

Art is running away without ever leaving home.