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

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.

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.

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

Noblest. Bravest. What rot. There was no bravery in buying oneself out of difficulty.

I don't think your missing pieces ever go inside you again once they go missing.

I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never had any religious training or background. It was never a part of our social interaction.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

I felt a rush of trust--felt that life might be not just tolerable but beautiful, if I could only remember to find the bare Present.

Of course I want to kill you," said Skulduggery. "I want to kill most people. But then where would I be? In a field of dead people with no one to talk to.

Every American expects and deserves clean air, and then we act on that belief, then we will set an example for the rest of the world to follow.

We are natural mind changing entities until we are 10 or so. But as we get older...then it is very hard to change our minds

I really think I need to find a home. I don't know if that includes a girlfriend or not, but first I need to find a home, definitely.

God himself preserved the Bible, and brought it down through the ages.