You can't understand light unless you understand darkness, because that's where life is most often lived - somewhere between the two. It's messy and it's beautiful all at the same time.

But there remained a reflective solitude behind that laughter, that nagging sense of completion that didn't sit well on the shoulders of a woman who had just begun to open her eyes to the wide world.

To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.

I wasn't bullied in high school, I was just ignored.

It makes it really hard to just go to a dinner party because, in my work life, I'm surrounded by the funniest people, ever. I'm really spoiled. I laugh a lot, in my day.

One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.

I think investments in general related to the exercise industry are going to be good for a long time.

He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.

Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football.

Writing's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.