I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.

I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.

One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.

I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.

I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.

People fear they won’t get what they want.

Success.. is all about being able to extend love to people... not in a big, capital letter sense but in the everyday. Little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word.

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.

Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

My existence is young like the blossoming leaves. I have experienced nothing yet.

Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.

You're better off missing a bus or an airplane once in a while than you are getting there too early all the time.

A foreign correspondent, after talking to me for a while, once said: "You don't seem smart enough to be so good at what you're doing. Do you have an explanation?"

I have never found in a human being loyalty that is comparable to a dog's loyalty.

Your enemy is still yourself. You don't have enemies. They may be self-styled. I have plenty of self-styled enemies. I don't wish them harm.

The keyhole is my lens as a writer.

Children are a sacred gift from a loving Heavenly Father. Children are an heritage of the Lord (Ps. 127:3). The more I think about children, the more I worry about parents.

We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.

The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.