Everyone should know that feeling of overcoming fear and mastering something. People who aren't taught that become soggy.

Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitting.

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.

Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.

We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole

The more you treat yourself positively, the less you'll want or need to be negative.

The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.

Everyone wanted to get to someplace better, wherever that was.

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

Writing isn't only about a completed piece of work. It's about the writer you're becoming while writing.

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck.

Its the details and the human element that makes Recount entertaining. Even though we know how the election ends, it plays like a thriller. Its also funny.

Give sustenance, Allah. Give sustenance to me.

It's always good to take something that's happened in your life and make something of it comedically.

Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

It feels like God visits everywhere else, but lives in Africa.