At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.

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.

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

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.

he who is greedy is always in want

Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

Don't say you love somebody and then change your mind ... Love isn't like picking what movie you want to watch.

Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.

Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point.

In the world of entrepreneurs, you don't need a college education. You need a proper education.

It's how you prioritize in life.

Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is common to you, me, and everybody.

I've dealt with a lot of guns over my career, so I'm getting better and better with firearms.