Prisons are built to break men, and when men are broken society has consummated its revenge

I would not have shied away from an assignment to sail a canoe around Cape Horn or to take charge of the government of Afghanistan.

Break the character and independence of your man and you will have an obedient trooper.

Every good thing begins with one positive thought.

Letting go of your desires will allow them to come to you much quicker

reason why prosperity spread, and why it continues to spread, is the transmission of technologies and the ideas underlying them.

As governor of Lagos, I never signed a cheque and never fixed contract prices.

A leader needs enough understanding to fashion an intelligent strategy.

I'd like to have the script in a much better place from day one of shooting, rather than trying to continue to work on it while you shoot it. I think those are lessons you learn on any film.

Jose Enrique's strength is that he's very strong

Scripture indicates that heaven is not distant but rather... heaven is near in another realm.

We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at game customers.

People tend to believe that I want to make soul music, which is not entirely untrue but, really, I want to be like the black Tom Waits - I don't want to make one kind of sound.