Standing alone is better than standing with people who don't appreciate you.

Attachment to the hurt is the root of all suffering.

It's not that life is good or bad. Life just is. It's how you handle the shitty situations that will determine whether it's good or bad.

I'm the most awesome person I know.

My heart has had love and lost love but it keeps on loving. That's just what hearts do.

People who want to sit around, star gaze and talk about their dreams are my favourite kind of people.

...but I am only one, and if I can make a difference, so can you...

It's not always about fixing what is broken. Sometimes it's about starting over and creating something new.

Make your desire for a better life stronger than your desire to stay in misery.

Not all broken things need to be fixed.

If you want a new life you need to hurry up and close the door on your old life.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

We are the most informed people in the history of civilization—and yet the most confused. Though our heads are crammed with knowledge, our hearts are empty.

Ifemelu thought about the expression "sweet girl." Sweet girl meant that, for a long time, Don had molded Ranyinudo into a malleable shape, or that she had allowed him to think he had.

Has there always been someone like me to bury the bodies, to have regrets, to carry on after everyone else was dead?

No pastor, no spiritual leader, is ever able to take his people any further than he himself has gone with God.

Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter.

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.