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

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

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.

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.

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.

Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the depths of self, and all of humankind.

Block of wood, gives you a big bunch of paper, but it doesn't make it worthy as a piece of mind on single paper.

In country music, one of the ways we may have gone wrong in the past is trying to be politically correct all the time.

We are your brothers, your daughters, your friends. We just happened to have been wrapped in a smaller package.

Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.

The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.

When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a communist.

Chess is a curse upon a man.

To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

Perfect knowledge comes only when you see the world in yourself, just as he who awakes from the dream then knows he saw his dream-world with its suns and stars in himself.