I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.

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.

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.

After a desperate fight, to know to congratulate your opponent, if he has beaten you, to shake his hand and go for a drink with him, in my eyes these things are particularly important.

We do not have bodies—we are bodies! What could possibly be wrong with that form of consciousness? It is all energy anyways.

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.

I was unemployed for a long time, but I couldn't adjust to the hours.

Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested.

It is only occasional that talent becomes genius - radiating sparks, brilliance, energy, and charismatic magnetism... such a talent was Janis Joplin.

I thought that 'Twilight' would be a kind of girl movie, but it was cool.

Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.

If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.

How we handle our tough times stays with us for a long time.