Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

Life loves the person who dares to live it.

To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.

Success is loving life and daring to live it.