We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.

Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do. People like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love.

We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

a dream can be the highest point of a life