Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.

Change has to come for life to struggle forward.

It never leaves, not with someone we love. Their presence burns too vivid in our memories. Happen that is as it should be, for otherwise we would too easy forget.

A true leader is still a leader even when he takes up servants' duty, provided he maintains a human face and added integrity to his self-retained qualities.

Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge.

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.

I am a man and all that affects mankind concerns me.

Even if their supplies of love are finite, they've figured out that life is, too, and they're no longer rationing.

A disarmed peace is weake.

You can't expect everything to happen all at once when it's been such a male-dominated world for so long.

In Indian civilization I am a Baptist, because I believe in immersing the Indians in our civilization and when we get them under holding them there until they are thoroughly soaked.

Mathematically speaking, it seems impossible that there isn't life out our planet. If you flick on the news, it certainly seems like we have aliens among us.

I would rather sing about my love affair or about a woman or to a woman than some guys any day.