Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

For the record, I'm not an indecisive person, and I'm not a coward. I just have a very detailed imaginary life, and it sometimes takes precedence over what's actually happening around me.

If to love each other is the job, then the happy life is the salary.

Our biggest dreams always start as a simple thought

Sometimes we called one another by our future doctor names. We did it partly to be funny, but mostly because we liked it when people did it back to us.

I think there is this about the great troubles - they teach us the art of cheerfulness whereas the small ones cultivate the industry of discontent.

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

A very advanced master can glow so strongly that you see divine in them. You look into them and you see infinity constantly changing, evolving and radiating in new forms.

Suffering is there because there's something we're not understanding about our full divinity, and there are so many ways we could go into understanding.

There isn't a class structure in Nigeria, there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.

I think the future of food is in insects.