Except that love - that mysterious, vast, all-encompassing power - could not possibly be contained in a single word.

One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.

People think that other international languages are smarter and more business wise. But they have to understand that we have to preserve our culture.

But some people, and especially very young people, don’t think anything’s worth believing unless it’s hard to believe.

Faith in oneself ... is the best and safest course.

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.

Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.

The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.

...blessed be the heart who finds its way to the eternal summer. [...to the realisation of eternal gratitude that things aren't worse, because they always can be!]

But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed.

I don't like directors that just say, Stand there and now do this.