Denzel Washington is someone I look up to.

The biggest thing people tell me is that I'll be jaded real soon and that the allure of filmmaking will lose its magic. Not necessarily the fame, but that special thing you create onscreen.

I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.

I was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and I moved to Anderson, Indiana, in 2003 to go to school. I finished high school in America, then I went to college.

The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role.

Oh, oh, oh I'm so sorry for you... but the real truth is that you make this to happen. (Believe or not I definite like this!)

I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

The Church is the Ship outside which it is impossible to understand the Divine Word, for Jesus spoke from the boat to the people gathered on the shore.

She had the power to destroy. I had only seen the power to love. When you discovered both, who could figure out what to do with that?

Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf.

Friendship is in the end no more than: " . . . a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone."

Peppercorn is black and so is the beauty mark of the moon-faces -both rend the heart, yet between them lie enormous spaces

I suspect the soviets never did want to use those bombs. The most Stalinist of Soviet hard-liners - Stalin, for example - must have realized a nuclear war would be a hard thing to clean up after.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.