Words let you know what is in someone’s mind, deeds let you know what is in someone’s heart, and character lets you know what is in someone’s soul.

A genuine smile is one of the world’s rarest treasures.

A fish that is afraid of drowning in a river is ignorant of its gifts.

A diamond earns its sparkle from the pressure it endures.

It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born.

A determined seed cannot be hidden from the world, not even by dirt.

Calm skies don't make skillful eagles.

If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.

Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience.

Today's storms help you appreciate tomorrow’s sunshine.

Train the ears to hear more, the eyes to see more, the hands to do more, the feet to accomplish more, the mind to think more, the heart to feel more, and the soul to love more.

If you keep fighting with yourself, you will have less energy to fight with life!

A little goes a long way in Somalia: $5 will feed a person there for about two weeks.

Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense." (on Richard Burton)

Those who dissolve their body of perception completely are absorbed into what we would call nirvana.

In the time of gods and monsters, what is the worth of a man?

Oh, I get lucky a lot. I get lucky at four in the morning in the law library.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

The sun persists in rising, so I make myself stand

I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

I'm not sayin' she's a bragger, but if you've been to Paradise, she's got a season ticket.