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.

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.

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 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.

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.

To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations.

I'm blown away by how happy you make me. Thank you for being there for me when I'm stupid enough to think I'd rather be alone.

You don't have to be great to get started but you have to get started to be great.

The weak makes excuses, the strong makes changes.

It is up to us not to bury that potential we have.

If you're going to succeed, then you just have to be thick-skinned. It's something I developed early in my career, and it just goes with the territory.

People who are 'different' are usually the ones that end up making a difference in the world.

We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.

We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves

I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting.