It isn't those who are taken by force, put in chains, and sold as slaves who are the real slaves; it is those who will accept it, morally and physically.

The development of Africa will not happen without the effective participation of women. Our forefathers' image of women must be buried once for all.

However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile.

Actually, even our virility depends on the gaze and the control of women. Without women, we cannot do anything. I think it's a good thing.

The only way for us to come out of poverty is to work hard. Poverty means begging throughout the world.

I am really unable to talk about my life - I don't know my life. I've travelled a lot and this is the life that I have lived, but that doesn't mean that I know myself.

It’s a sheer-madness for a father not to see his son greater than him

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

As we get older, things seem less important.

I burn so many calories when I work out that I don't really count calories or necessarily try and stay away from anything.

Maybe my biggest aim is to bring a sense of that old mystery of rock 'n' roll into the new age of today's instantaneous and fast world.

In meditation...the power of God begins to reflect in the clear waters of your consciousness.

I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal; but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.

I do live like a rock star, but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling.

To me there is an intimate relationship between austerity and more lush aesthetics. They're two faces of the same coin.

If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.