We should teach the foreigners and colonialists that Somalia cannot be led by other people and that the traitors who fled the country will never lead Somalia.

When I leave Somalia I will leave buildings but not people.

It is the worst way that big power could act, it is arrogance, it is proudness, it is measuring of one's decision in accordance to his bigness, unfortunately, therefore lack of any wisdom.

When I came to Mogadishu...here was one road built by the Italians. If you try to force me to stand down, I will leave the city as I found it. I came to power with a gun; only the gun can make me go.

Start each day asking, "How do I want others to feel?" Then act accordingly. xo

You're everything I write about in my songs, but can never have.

If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being in a troubled situation.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

I have never directed. But I think I could. I have thought about it. I'm a bit long in the tooth to start.

Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person.

No woman is a more vibrant instrument in the hands of the Lord than a woman of God who is thrilled to be who she is.

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.