Imagine the world we would live in if we dared to see all of life as sacred - unconditionally.

Your attitude to life is far more important in determining your happiness than your money, appearance, social status or talent.

It is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal.

Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your imagination

Whatever our background, culture or race, what rewards us most powerfully and consistently are the most deceptively simple abilities of all: the ability to be kind.

Happiness--like love--is itself an attitude.

Opening to the sacred, we transform our vision of ourselves.

Love teaches you to care for others. It also gives you your best chance to grow up.

Sound crazy? It may well be, but it is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal. p.215

Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

Sometimes, you don't realize what you have until you wake up and go 'Damn.'

From a personal point of view, I'd like to interview my great-grandparents because I barely knew them, and I know next to nothing about my family beyond 100 years.

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

Witticisms are fire-arms, that make a noise and give pain.

Life and 'Mind' are systemic processes.

Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.

[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.