I just want to make sure that public service doesn't have to be an occupation, but it needs to be a way of life.

My mother is extraordinary; she's a superwoman, like so many other single mothers who are out there.

We're not products of our environments, we're products of our expectations.

The young men in our city are not problems to be solved. They are opportunities to be unleashed.

When it is time for you to leave this school, leave your job, or even leave this earth, you make sure you have worked hard to make sure it mattered you were even here.

Potential is universal, opportunity is not.

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

But really, where leadership is born and where leadership is really bred is.

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

We must be careful more than ever what we let our hearts believe in.

Management: An art of handling conflicting Egos to meet a common objective, be it political, organisational or societal in nature.

It is neither trials nor relationships nor successes nor failures that define a man, but the choices he makes while handling them.

I've dug so deep into his background, I can practically tell you when he stopped waring diapers.

I have everything I need. A square of sky, a piece of stone, a page, a pen, and memory raining down on me in sleeves.

Every time I get a role I think, 'I've actually fooled them again, I can't believe they keep falling for this!

Photographs don’t lie, but liars may photograph

The smell of gunpowder is sweeter to me than all the perfumes of Arabia.

I've taken challenges with the big risk that it can all go wrong. But that's what I like and I'd rather do that than be safe all the time.

Its nice to have a catcher who knows my mechanics, too. That way if I get into trouble he can stop it before I get out of control.