very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

I Cried in the Night For Love, my Heart was aching, she was always on my mind, day and night I couldn’t stop thinking of her, she was simply my eternal love, my heart, my soul .

We are well, ' Efuru replied. 'It is only hunger.''It is good that it is only hunger. Good health is what we pray for.

I'm not an upfront person. Being upfront is not my forte. I'm quite happy to stay in the back there with the drums, where I belong.

I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.

Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.

What's that?" "That's my attack poodle.

You can fall in the area of your strength as easily as you could fall in the area of your weakness.

Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature.

For the thinker the world is a thought; for the wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for the inquirer, truth.

Change is inevitable. Progress is optional .