Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

There is hope for you.

I thought you had forgotten me.”“I have spent my life remembering you.

The gold lamp, Xerxes, is probably the most important thing in your life.

I guess somethings turned out too sad even to be explained with a bases-loaded strikeout.

I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.

The three things that motivate creative people - autonomy, mastery, purpose!

The war in Iraq is still going on. The British are helping. Mexico wants to help, but they need a ride over there.

The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness.

The result of my hard work is that I'm financially independent, I have an amazing life, and I can do whatever I want. I don't have to answer to anybody.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.