You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity.

I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.I wish you all very good lives.

Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations.

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

God would light the way. Faith would keep them on the right path.

The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.

I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.

I take it as a sign of intimacy and friendship when you feel comfortable enough with someone to have a little rough and tumble.

I'll see something awful on the street and I'll come home and say to my boyfriend, "I just saw the funniest thing on the street." It's a stance. It's the way I was born, or the way I was damaged.

War and it's tragic repercussions are inclusive of all; surely a model for peace should strive for such inclusiveness.

Africa must revert to what it was before the imperialists divided it. These are artificial divisions which we, in our pan-African concept will seek to remove.

There are lots of moments that are great for an actress.