there are hundreds who don't know the difference between a cleansing cream and an emollient - which to our minds is practically the same as being illiterate.

Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become a nuisance.

Remember that nothing is so damaging to self-esteem as waiting for a telephone or door-bell that doesn't ring.

It is a regrettable, but undeniable, fact that the most delightful people are seldom big money-makers.

In all, Nigeria belongs to us all and we have a personal responsibility to see that it succeeds

On June 10, the worst storm in the series swept across the middle of the Indian Ocean and Wild Eyes was directly in its path.

All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

My father's a keen sportsman, and so is my mother. My mother's brothers all played international rugby for Samoa. That's where I got my dreams from.

It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.

Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.

It's funny to be a critic.

The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.

It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this

I am grateful for the men and women who pastor, who lead in churches across our country. Ultimately, their role of loving people and seeing hearts changed is probably the greatest calling.