When loneliness is a constant state of being, it harkens back to a childhood wherein neglect and abandonment were the landscape of life.

If we don’t honor our truth, how can we expect anyone else to do so?

Find the pitch and pace and syllables and words you love to hear. Delight your own senses, and self-romance.

Tread lightly on your partner’s heart. It was given to you for safekeeping.

How can you get through to yourself?

Stand up for the underdog, the 'loser.' Sometimes having the strength to show loving support for unacknowledged others turns the tides of our own lives.

Superficial social niceties are far different from the deep emotion of thanksgiving.

When we are able to look beyond appearances and to behold that which we truly are, we recognize that our essence is interwoven with the divine and that we exist as one of its expressions.

There are marvelous sea creatures whose existences can be viewed only within the deep blue sea, and similarly we all have dear secrets that can be spoken only in the habitat of the heart.

Not everything is about you, " Clary said furiously."Possibly, " Jace said, "but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.

An ethical idealist, a person whom embraces the honorable philosophy of ethical idealism, performs acts that are honest, pure, and righteous regardless of their fearfulness.

I'm not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.

Unless I'm writing in the Igbo language, I use a language developed elsewhere, which is English. That affects the way I write. It even affects to some extent the stories I write.

Show respect for those in power, but do not follow them blindly.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

In order to do more. I've got to be more.

[Bertholt] Brecht looked very thin, like a herring with very sensitive hands.

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.