I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.

I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.

You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.

I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.

We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.

Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.

To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.

In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.

The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special.

After a desperate fight, to know to congratulate your opponent, if he has beaten you, to shake his hand and go for a drink with him, in my eyes these things are particularly important.

My imagination and power are limitless. Nothing can stop me from achieving my dreams.

My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet.

To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.

I think you can tell a lot from the lives of many of today's great soloists. Their participation and gravitation towards chamber music is ever increasing.

Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.

Style has become very important, the whole idea of style, what your personal style is. It's your identity.

The Governor would serve a five-year term and be ineligible for reelection.

The future, higher evolution will belong to those who live in joy, who share joy, and who spread joy.

When I decided to follow my dream I had already discarded my life.