In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.

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.

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

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.

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.

People who know their worth understand the power of their own words.

Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire.

I like the 'Cirque du Freak' books - 'Tunnel of Blood' by Darren Shan. They're set in England. It's about vampires.

I've done a lot of things to become what I've become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie.

Treat every piece of advice as a gift or a compliment and simply say, “Thank you.

May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame of unending thanksgiving ascends to heaven.

I actually quite like working with kids and I like working with animals, which is what everybody says you shouldn't do, because it makes you feel like you're not acting.

To shift the direction of our planet, we must now be willing to experiment with the theory that within the speed and stress, we are good.

A man had need to fear this most of all that he fears not at all.

Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.