“Being impeccable with your word is the correct use of your energy; it means to use your energy in the direction of truth and love for yourself.”

Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.

It is always better to ask then to make an assumption.

If you are not afriad, thereis no way you will get mad at me. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will hate me. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will be jealous or sad.

What you will see is love coming out of the trees, love coming out of the sky, love coming out of the light. You will perceive love from everything around you. This is the state of bliss.

The action is what makes the dreams come true. Always do your best. The dream that you have becomes real when you take the action. If you dont take the action whatever is in your head … will dissolve and you will forget about it

Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.

All my book are my favorites.

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do

Every prayer is an agreement with yourself.

The real us is pure love, pure light

In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even more complicated because we make the assumption that what we believe is the absolute truth.

There is nothing to do except to be just who you are. You have the right to feel beautiful and enjoy it.

The fear of not getting the reward becomes the fear of rejection. The fear of not being good enough… is what makes us try to change, what makes us create an image.

And what is the right woman, the right man? Someone who wants to go in the same direction as you do, someone who is compatible with your views and your values– emotionally, physically, economically, spiritually.

Don’t make assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want.

Your life is the manifestation of your dream; it is an art. You can change your life anytime if you aren’t enjoying the dream.

Being here feels like I’m out of prison. This is the right place, the right time, the right team.

The thing is, I don’t do these things for recognition, being a good teammate, being a positive member of the community. I do them because those things make me whole and complete.

The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.

I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says ‘No’, then you have to knock on the next door.

I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.

For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: “Even if you put me in prison, I will keep on writing in the language which made you put me in prison.”