When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe.

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.

I love Nigerians because they are extra ordinary people they make impossible to be possible.

I was a street performer for two years.

You can't kill your way to security and you can't lead by scaring people.

My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

The only absolute attainment is absolute abandonment.

If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.

I wasn't bullied or anything at school, but I was quite shy and didn't speak up too much in class.

You will be a great entrepreneur if you operate with a real sincere wanting to serve.

I write as a witness to what I have seen.

Rather than thinking to build, build to think.