What others think about you is none of your business.

If you get clear on the what, the how will be taken care of.

You must take responsibility for removing I can't from your vocabulary.

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me

Because if the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person.

The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own ability to remember things.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

I don't think there should be a Palestinian state because I don't believe in states.

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.

Someone might say that's a naïve way of looking at things now, and I would respect their opinion, but I also respect every woman's right to wearing her own individual style, including hair.

While we do not need art to live, I couldn't imagine a life without it.

Almost starve, but I don’t starve because I eat very much

I was born and raised in Nigeria. We lived in England when I was 3 and 4, and I would go to summer school every year in Switzerland.