Is a woman bound to wifely obedience, when the result will be to turn her out of the estate of wife?

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.

When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.

You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.

Fantasy is unconstrained by truth.

His suppressed grief becomes anger. But what can he do with anger? It must also be suppressed.

By the hairy balls of Jesus

For I chase but one hind, he says, one strange deer timid and wild, and she leads me off the paths that other men have trod, and by myself into the depths of the wood.

He has never told anyone this story. He doesn't mind talking to Richard, to Rafe about his past--within reason--but he doesn't mean to give away pieces of himself.

Your assignment must at least better the lives of people around you and the world at large.

Your mind fuels the state of your soul, spirit and body.

I’m looking for youinto that silverspoon where I taste my reflection to feel the touch of your untouchables- from the poem "Looking For You

I take a lot of pride in being Nigerian

My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.

Knowledge and belief are two seperate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child.

Buffett’s genius was largely a genius of character—of patience, discipline, and rationality.

Politicians can do more funny things naturally than I can think of to do purposely

Performing is about developing empathy, which leads us to a broader view of the world and encourages us to develop compassion; so we can comfort each other and not be so brutal with each other.