It’s one thing if everyone wears the same shoes or drinks the same soda. But the world of literature is the last place in which globalization should mean homogeneity.

I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.

Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go.

What we perceive about ourselves is greatly a reflection of how we will end up living our lives.

A tree depicts divinest plan But God himself lives in a man.

I find myself to be quite sarcastic, and I wouldn't want to be with someone who didn't get that.

People didn't put pressure on me. I just played for the love of the game.

As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.

Never sleep with anybody who has more problems than you do.

Faith is the amplifier that will allow the universe to hear and resonate with your music.

I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope.

When I'm just walking around, I swap between the British and the American, and when I'm with my family I'm with my Nigerian accent.

When I was a rookie, Cy Young used to hit me flies to sharpen my abilities to judge in advance the direction and distance of an outfield-hit ball.