“When you leave home to follow your dreams, your road will probably be riddled with potholes, not always paved in happy Technicolor bricks. You’ll probably be kicked to the ground 150 million times and told you’re nuts by friends and strangers alike. As you progress you may feel lonely or terrified for your physical and emotional safety. You may overestimate your own capabilities or fail to live up to them, and you’ll surely fall flat on your face once in a while.”

“Siri ya mafanikio ni shida!”

“Do not despair. We will glimpse another track; we fill find another route. The day that is not this will come. The time that is not this will be.”

“Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don’t have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It’s not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn’t have done it that way.[Interview, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 20, 2009]”

“Sometimes it’s the suffering we don’t ask for that means the most.”

“There is a goodness in the world that got me through, that taught me it’s important to know who you are.”

“Some situations are just like bad dreams, they’re only unbearable while we’re giving them our full attention.”

“Some teach youwhat can’t be taught,by turning their backon you & helpingyou get internallycloser to everythingyou externallysought.”

“As long as you have hope, you can survive any harsh condition.”

“To have the opportunity to know your parents is to have the opportunity to truly know yourself.”

“What can we do in any hardship? We can hope with prayerful praise.”

“Hope is victory in any hardship.”

“Hope is the discipline of hardship.”

“Hardship is the discipline of life.”