Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realise how widespread envy was.

International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.

To eat Ugali is an art of adventure in itself. Forget cutlery because all you need is your lovely fingers.

It is easier to set a limit for yourself, but if you do so you will never reach your true potential. You have an obligation to live up to your potential.

The Middle East is a region where oil is thicker than blood.

All actors are my brothers and my sisters. It ain't cool to compare or disparage them. It ain't polite.

I’d never managed anyone before, so I don’t have a lot of experience. But I’m lucky - I have a lot of team members who have a really honest relationship with me.

I don't wonder about anything. I'm too old to wonder. I think the most important thing is to wake-up with a pulse. I look in the obituary columns. If I'm not in it, I get out of bed.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian evolution. Intelligent design makes it impossible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.