Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.

Until you are somewhat comfortable and confident and embrace who you are, as a person, you can't possibly love somebody else because you don't like yourself that much.

The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.

I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.

America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.

I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.

I am happy, and I have many reasons to be extra-happy nowadays. Life is calm, and the career is good and taking its course. And things are moving, things are moving ahead.

I hope more people will ask diamond companies to continue changing the way they do business in Africa.

If anything, Calvin Klein is the iconic company in terms of fashion. They do have iconic images for their campaigns.

He kept wandering all his life until the day he met her. For the first time, he felt he should stop and never look back again. Everything else seemed worthless. Such was her magic.

Don't confuse the finger for the moon

I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything.

I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.

Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies.

I like to say that before we can create an external space in which to receive people, we have to create an internal space in which to receive them.

Faith is a spirit. It is an attitude. It is confidence in the heart.

I have lived in Norfolk all my life. It inspires me, the sea, the limitless skies, the mud and the burning sunsets and the freedom of a place where more than 50% of the neighbours are fish.