Don't insult me today just because I'm poor, you don't know what my future holds!

Chief Wimbe also loved his cat, which was black and white but had no name. In Malawi, only dogs are given names, I don't know why.

When you go to see the lake, you also see the hippos.

And so sometimes I would think how the devil had conquered God.

It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on.

I wont ever put myself in a bad position so that people can say bad things about me. I make smart decisions, and my friends and my family, they are all there for the right reason.

Some day I'm going to climb Everest.

Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer.

Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.

I'm a little more comfortable in that role. I love being in the studio.

Some things happen by accident - embrace them.

I'm not scared to fail, I'm not scared to lose, I'm not scared to die, for that matter... It's going to work out the way it's supposed to work out.

Yeah, but I don't believe everything I read.