Africa is like a child that immediately cries for its babysitter when something goes wrong. Africa should stand on its own two feet.

Africa must take the first steps into modernity on its own. There must be a change in mentality. We have to stop perceiving ourselves as beggars.

The countries that have collected the most development aid are also the ones that are in the worst shape. Despite the billions that have poured in to Africa, the continent remains poor.

Africans are taught to be beggars and not to be independent.

In the industrial nations, there's a sense that Africa would go under without development aid. But believe me, Africa existed before you Europeans came along. And we didn't do all that poorly either.

Africa is always only portrayed as a continent of suffering, but most figures are vastly exaggerated.

No one can really picture an African as a businessman. In order to change the current situation, it would be helpful if the aid organizations were to pull out.

Africans only perceive themselves as victims.

Plato and Aristotle are my teachers. Even Kant is my teacher, but my greatest teacher is my failures.

You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you.

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

Note: addiction diverts attention

I know you're there. I can detect your presence each time it closes in on mine.

We'd even devised the Buffy scale of life relationships: you start off wanting Xander, spend your twenties going out with Spike and setttle down with giles.

A friend tells you what you want to hear;a best friend tells you the truth.

Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.

We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.

I am too old and stiff-necked to change my memories now.