I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.

Until you are somewhat comfortable and confident and embrace who you are, as a person, you can't possibly love somebody else because you don't like yourself that much.

The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.

I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.

America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.

I am happy, and I have many reasons to be extra-happy nowadays. Life is calm, and the career is good and taking its course. And things are moving, things are moving ahead.

I hope more people will ask diamond companies to continue changing the way they do business in Africa.

If anything, Calvin Klein is the iconic company in terms of fashion. They do have iconic images for their campaigns.

Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.

Quality solves the trade-off between margins and sales.

Dear Lord, ” she said in a strangled whisper. “I can bear it for a while...but please don't let it hurt forever.

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.

Leadership is about moving people from where they are to where you hope they'll go.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

The values and the relationships of the people I love around me are my real riches. That's my lasting wealth.

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

Innovation is born from the interaction between constraint and vision.

Be the person you wish to become - today. Talk like them, walk like them, breathe like them! Be them NOW!