“In Africa, if you are an hour late, you are right on time.”

“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!”

“Sometimes at the start of a new chapter in life, it seems that everything is for you and nothing can go wrong. You feel as if you are standing on a mountain peak and can catch a glimpse of the dazzling promised land that is your future- a work to be accomplished, a relationship to be enjoyed. All is bathed in mellow, golden light.”

“He knew my African tendency to approach things by running in circles around them.”

“Без Марга градът изглеждаше различен. Очите ми виждаха други неща. На тротоара имах нужда от пространство за един човек ...”

“I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it),...”

“Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour. ”