Nyambura Kamau Quotes & Sayings

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing. — Gilbert Gottfried

There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all. — George Orwell

A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters, into presenting publicly his innermost feelings. — Nelson Algren

Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you. — Zig Ziglar

You realize that especially when you're writing a book like this, looking back on your life, that there's just such a depth of understanding you acquire over time with the help of the people who love you that that's when you can really get down to what you really think and believe. — Anna Quindlen

Ever love something so much you start to think it's yours? — Erika Swyler

Love is by definition an unmerited gift; being loved without meriting it is the very proof of real love. If a woman tells me: I love you because you're intelligent, because you're decent, because you buy me gifts, because you don't chase women, because you do the dishes, then I'm disappointed; such love seems a rather self-interested business. How much finer it is to hear: I'm crazy about you even though you're neither intelligent nor decent, even though you're a liar, an egotist, a bastard. — Milan Kundera

We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living — Confucius

It's because we have little faith that we look within instead of without. — Ralph Bouma