Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies.

I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.

Whining lets the brute know there's a victim for him in the neighborhood!

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to us to live but once, let us so live we will not regret years of useless virtue, and inertia, and timidity, and ignorance, and in our last moments we can say: 'All my life, all my conscious energies, have been dedicated to the most noble cause in the world, the liberation of the human mind and spirit - beginning with my own'.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.