Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.

I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.

People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.

Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.

We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

Dreams can be of value even if you don’t have an opportunity to turn them into reality.

Every secret we confide in another person can be a burden to them

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

‎Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Trust the one with experience, not the one with ideas.

Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.

I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.

Schiller is an important philosopher because he shows just how integral the idea of beauty is in normal life.

I am best viewed from a distance.

I think that I could have been take apart if the bear market continued, but I waited three years before I felt the bear market was over and I was right.

Music... is the shaping of the invisible.

I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can inert and study your navel and gradually you'll fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living.