If I did not love America, I wouldn't have moved here from Kenya.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

African leaders must desire to liberates it’s people through intensive education (formal and informal). The African people deserve to be educated.

Maybe you’re worried that I won’t seduce you?

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good but for neglecting his neighbor's.

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.

Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.

I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.

Talk less-you will automatically learn more, hear more, see more-and make fewer blunders.

I had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room...I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the City Morgue.