I would love to have a race against Usain Bolt one day! It would certainly be a good challenge for me.

I always set myself new goals. I always want to do better than I did in the past. I always want to achieve things I never achieved before.

Speed is a part of me. I think I was born with that, and nowadays a fast player, I need a fast car, too.

Before I arrived here [ Borussia Dortmund], a lot of people were questioning about whether I could ever play as a striker, that I was a guy who could only run down the wing quickly.

Most of all I hope the tournament [The 2017 Africa Cup of Nations] will help unite our people [in Gabon]. My wish is to celebrate a big party all together.

I want to score goals in every match, as many as possible.

My mother used to have a shop in which she offered very colorful clothes. I liked that from my early days on.

First and foremost, we have to focus on what we're doing and not worry about what Bayern - or any other clubs - are doing.

Every goal is hard work, especially in such an excellent league as the Bundesliga; or even take the Champions League.

I've worked really hard on getting into the box more and being closer to the goal, which I think has brought real benefits to my game. It's definitely improved my goal scoring.

Didier Drogba and Samuel Eto'o, two fantastic African footballers. So successful. And very nice characters as well. I got the luck to know them personally. They helped me a lot.

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

Being this close to him was like sitting under a hotness heat lamp. In the desert. At high noon.

and if anyone was ever going to live eternally in the light, I think it would be you.

Drama is drama, and it's really... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it's something big, you use a wide lens.

There was no "decision" per se to re-position myself. I simply decided that I wanted to write a book that would help people influence others.

When can you enjoy something you'll continue to do it and you'll continue to have that want to grow.

Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.

But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense, Old riddles still bid us defiance, Old questions of Why and of Whence.

I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.