Ben Okri

Quiet people are the most dangerous.

So long as a canvas is empty its potential is infinite… The empty canvas can become a gateway into the landscape of nightmares or a vision of sensual bliss.

Be like the tortoise- grow a hard shell to protect your strong heart. Be like the eagle- soar above your pain and carry the banner and the wonder of our lives to the farthest corners of the world. Build your strength. Destiny is difficult.

"A writer's task is not merely to describe the world but to deepen our way of seeing it."

For your reflections reflect on the things you do. And the things you do reflect on you.

"Writing is a way of paying attention to life."

What if by sheer repetition we become the person we most often pretend to be? Does that mean there is no authentic self? Are we made of habits, compressed by time, like layered rocks?

Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.

"We have no instrument by which to record the absolute nature of reality, because whatever instrument we use is filtered through consciousness."

"When I was about three years old... I realised that words could move the power in a room."

If your work can surprise you then you have started something worthwhile.

Responsibility is active. Vigilant. Actions become character and character becomes destiny. . .the moment you see something is wrong, you have a responsibility.