Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She’d held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She clung to it, celebrated it, worshipped it even,...

For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.

On the canvas of life,Every sweep of the brush matters,Counts for something…

If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?

Being reliable is something. Being good.

Whenever you feel a little stricken down in pain, think about this. The knife has to be sharpened by striking and rubbing it against something strong before it can become useful! You are going to...

I know only that it is time for me to be something when I am nothing.

There are people that will settle for nothing, people that will fight for something, and those that are fooled striving to have everything.

Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don’t have to do it, but it’s here if you...

I want something good to die for. . . to make it beautiful to live.

How does one say something new and not retell?

…You know something, don’t you?””I know lots of things–your inquiry needs to be more specific.””Just answer the question.””True/false or multiple choice?

Nothing, Everything, Anything, Something: If you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something.

If love and beauty were easy to find, they would not exist.Chaos and sadness exist in order for you to find the love and beauty in them. So that love and beauty mean something.It’s meant...

If you’re brave enough to do something you better damn well be brave enough to accept the consequences.

A gift involves sacrifice. If you give away something that you no longer value or want, it cannot be a gift. It is simply a discarded item.

Nimewapa watoto wangu kila kitu katika maisha isipokuwa umaskini. Lakini bado wamenishinda.

Nothing’ is the enemy of something and the friend of everything.

I know a thing or two about a thing or two. One of those things is not love. Also, one of those things is not love.

I’m going to build that house with my own hands, from the foundation to the roof. I’m going to do it for us, and I’m going to do it right, so it lasts forever. Can’t...

It takes time, or does time take it?

Everybody’s damaged by something.