I don't draw attention to myself or have security pushing people away.

I try to incorporate faith every day, to not remind myself of past failures, to learn how to forgive and to trust the future.

I love the French horn.

Here we are standing face to face, isn't this world a crazy place, just when I thought the chance had passed, you go and save the best for last.

Sometimes the snow comes down in June, sometimes the sun goes around the moon.

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

Sometimes the very thing you're looking for is the one thing you cannot see.

I'm not perfect, but I'm focused when I have a goal.

Love breaks your heart, love takes no less than everything. Love makes it hard, and it fades away so easily.

Salsa is a phenomenal way to stay fit, have a great time with your friends and listen to great music.

You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.

what is the use of a book, ' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'"- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, Ch. 1

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

I live in the paradise of my imagination.

There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation.

If travelling was free, you won't see me again

I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I'm cool with that.

I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.

There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

I didn't leave Africa, I left Nigeria, and for political reasons. But ... I've never, never left Africa, and I certainly never left what it means to be Ibo. That is something you carry with you.

I’m single, I’m enjoying life. Being a boss. Like all true bosses, one day you gotta give it up.