Africa doesn't need strongmen, it needs strong institutions.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

Love everything around you

The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.

You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.

We have done a tremendous disservice, not only to Middle East, we've done a tremendous disservice to humanity.

Scientists are the enemies of tradition , and tradition own all the prisons. - Victor Vigny

In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else.

I just love music gear, I'm a total geek all around.

I decided to come back and teach goodness in this business. To teach love, because music is the universal language. We are God's bouquet, and through music we become one.

I've been through so much in my career in F1, particularly in 1995, and I did achieve so much that I thought that it's not worth it any more to push your luck further. [on his retirement

Sadly, I really want to be Batman ... and I just never will be.