Leading people is like cookingDon’t stir too much
It annoys the ingredients
And spoils the food

The agony of defeat is always greater than the pain of preparing for victory.

there is more strengthin admitting vulnerability than in faking invincibility

objectivity is subjective

if you can't control yourself, you will be controlled by others—choose your master.

Nothing is more memorable than truth beautifully told.

Failure is our greatest teacherBlame blinds us to her lessons

I see that the culture that is prevalent right now in Nigeria and indeed Africa is the culture of GET RICH QUICK.

Patents? Disappointed? Don't think of it that way. Software patents weren't feasible then so we chose not to risk $10,000.

Working on a studio picture, I can't help but be aware of all the political stuff that's going on. I have to work to be able to survive, in a sense.

You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.

The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.

I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.

Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.

Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism ?

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.