The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.

The key to liberation resides within our very own hands and heart.

Parenthood is a walk in the park...A park full of scorpions that you can't leave without jumping through fiery hoop on a pogo stick.

I think you are very selfless.

I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European.

I may or may not have almost body slammed one of my bandmates for snoring.

A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make intention clear to the dumb engine.

My home is a happy place to be. I bless everyone who enters, myself included. Pleasant experiences fill every room.

If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.

I always try to keep the confidence of the actors, and try my best to make them feel comfortable or confident.

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.