My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.

If women ran the world, we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

Why do they call it "rush hour" when nothing moves?

Don't associate yourself with toxic people. It's better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people that make you hate yourself.

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.

Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Sometimes I think, I need a spare heart to feel all the things I feel.

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.

My intent is to be generous of spirit and live with total integrity every day of my life.

I admit that living in Nigeria sounds romantic, but Africa isn't America by a long shot. It's a different world and a different place in time...

We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence

I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

True love knows no bargains. It is one-way traffic: giving, giving, giving.