Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower?

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eye.

You are the master of your emotions and you and only you have the power to control them external and internal.

I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.

The economy in Gaza is declining because Gaza is controlled by a terror regime.

Stay beautiful, keep it ugly

When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.

By using power, money, fraud, the enemy is interested in gaining control over the world of Islam.

Where I come from, there's no common enemy, there's no "why." There's no, "I hate white people."

If anything, I have witnessed the ways my art travels, or is rendered more accessible, when sanctioned by or connected to white artists.