Even the best buzz wears off, and you wake up more trapped than the day before.

t may not be the life you imagined, but it’s your life. You came here for a reason. Is it time for you to go and begin again?

Cause and effect are rarely directly related. Justice has a mind of her own.

You earn brotherhood—the purest friendship, trust, love, whatever you want to call it—moment by moment through how you treat others.

Silence has built walls, walls that I attempt to break by pedaling faster, only to be imprisoned a hundred feet down the road.

I'm learning quickly, once you quit one thing, it gets easier and easier just to leave situations rather than deal with shit.

Questions from earlier circle like buzzards. Am I running away or moving forward?

The waves splash against my face, carrying a message: Welcome, you belong here.

To exist here, I’ll have to become skilled in saying no—an art in which I was once well accomplished, but one I no longer care to practice.

Nothing worse than someone who goes to the dance, is excited to dance, dances all night, and then complains all the next day about his feet being sore.

I never get used to the faces--wide-eyed and full of possibility--staring bad at me.

I believe that for Nigeria and other third world countries to truly become developed, we must change the culture and attitude of our people towards work

The literary man re-reads, other men simply read.

It is not about giving her the world, it is all about making her realize that she is the only one in it.

Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people interact with them - and therefore by what quality of interaction they can inspire.

We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as our need for food and water.

A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.

I'm pretty sure Adele and James Blunt were dumped by the same man.

I need some Starbucks. What about you? (Cassandra) Always game for java. Give me ground-up beans or give me death. (Katra)

You go through your career and you find people and cast who you love and you go through and keep them and you never want to let them go because you have a great repertory with them.

No one can change yesterday, but we can all change tomorrow.