An African who loses the ability to die with dignity is a lost man.

I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.

People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.

Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.

We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

Dreams can be of value even if you don’t have an opportunity to turn them into reality.

Every secret we confide in another person can be a burden to them

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

‎Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

Her fragility makes her uncomfortable, but it has a familiarity, too, like the biting cold of winter that you only half forget during other seasons.

The minute you feel you have given a faultless performance is the time to get out.

I used to do some philanthropic work, but with the political platform, I can contribute in a bigger way.

You might be a redneck if directions to your house include turn off the paved road.

My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.

Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.

No more slave States and no more slave territory.

Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?

If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.

Botswana is also the only country in the world with a colour in its flag meant to represent rain (a sort of blue-grey). Not many people know this.