“We have plenty of time to be gloom when we are dead we have plenty of time to laugh when we are alive......ENJOY LIFE!!!”

“Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being in each other's presence we exchange our cells, pass on some of our life force, and then we go on carrying that other person in our body, not unlike springtime when certain plants in fields we walk through attach their seeds in the form of small burrs to our socks, our pants, our caps, as if to say, "Go on, take us with you, carry us to root in another place." This is how we survive long after we are dead. This is why it is important who we become, because we pass it on.”

“What a world this would be if we just build bridges instead of walls!”

“Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.”

“Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.”

“You Americans have been blessed with wristwatches but you don't have much time. We Africans have no wristwatches, but we have plenty of time!”

“As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.”