To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.

Just out of sight around a bend in the river there's always a small island full of magic and mystery just waiting for you.

We must stop calling corruption a “Nigerian factor”.

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

Your flesh is killing your spirit. You have forsaken yourself.

There is only one secret. To love what you are doing.

Express only that which cannot be expressed. Leave it unexpressed)

Hittin' hard don't mean nothing if you don't find nothin' to hit.

People complain that pro athletes make a lot of money; but what they don't understand is that we need a lot of money because we spend a lot of money.

I'm just naturally quite toned. My dad was like a body builder, so I've got my dad's body. Not all of it, thank God.