I respect music, I do. I love it.

I grew up with reggae music.

Malaria kills and its main victims are children and women. We can stop this scourge so people can live with dignity and go to work and school.

Africa is the future.

In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.

Travel teaches as much as books.

I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.

I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.

I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.

Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.

I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat.

You have to create emptiness to fill it with success.

The popular view that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

At the end of faith there is always some calamity

William's book will inspire you to open up your intuition and create some magic in your life.

We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not.

Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.

Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.

The temple endowment was given by revelation. Thus, it is best understood by revelation, prayerfully sought with a sincere heart.

When you are drawing characters to serve a plot purpose, you tend to get flat, stereotyped, unliving characters.

I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out.