“Find that pursuit that will energize you, consume you, become an obsession.”

Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don’t, you are working.

It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise.

I’m here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.

Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role.

Don’t work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone.

You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.

There is admiration, learning, attraction and something which, for the want of a better word, we call happiness.

You either don’t, or you do with every cell in your body, completely and utterly, without reservation or apology. It consumes you, and you are reborn, all the better for it.

You’re going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there’s no life expectancy.

They would be very disappointed that they didn’t meet their life expectancy.

Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they’re 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation.

We learn the true worthlessness of material things. We celebrate being human. Loving is good for the soul…

Loving someone has great benefits.

It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions.

You will also find that it is no great tragedy if your love is not reciprocated.

Finally, you will find that there is no half-measure when it comes to loving someone.

Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.

One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.

If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.

Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.

Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.

I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

Luckily your lifetime warranty on your heart is still in effect. Of course, that becomes void and expires when you do.