You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?” Aunty Ifeka said. “Your life belongs to you and you alone.

Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?

She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.

The truth has become an insult.

Don’t see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy. What will you do with the misery you have chosen? Will you eat misery?

If the sun refuses to rise we will make it rise

She felt a sense that things were in order, the way they were meant to be, and that even if they tumbled down once in a while, in the end they would come back together again.

We never actively remember death, ' Odenigbo said. The reason we live as we do is because we do not remember that we will die. We will all die.

God's glory in our lives has little to do with our sacrifice and everything to do with our surrender.

None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.

Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.

One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.

To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders talent praises death.

A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

We eat a lot of lean meat and fresh vegetables.. You are what you eat, you know. When I'm 100 I'll still be doing pin-ups.

Leadership doesn't mean giving marching orders that others must follow blindly. Rather, it means causing others to want to follow. Successful leadership is personal.

I've been called worse by better.

The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.