Hometown is like my quilts. Sometimes when you are in sweet dreams, you don't feel it's comfortable.

If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.

Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.

No matter whether you are new or an old team member, you need time to adjust to one another.

Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries.

Sports teach you how to be quick. Injuries teach you how to slow down.

There is a phrase in Chinese, 'Resolve is victory.'

Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.

Friendship first, competition second.

Sometimes it can feel like there are a billion people on my shoulders.

Endangered species are our friends.

The realisation that limitations are imaginary will make you strong and overpowering.

Newspapers are a centre of public culture. We can’t give in to extortion.

The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about fifteen languages and three dialects. I grew up speaking about seven of them.

Know in the first place, that mankind agree in essence, as they do in limbs and senses.

What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?

Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

Confusion is what we're living with - not being able to make sense of what's happening to us from day to day. Whereas making sense is what we're aiming for - making sense.

All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.