The two kinds of people on earth that I mean Are the people who lift and the people who lean.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

Divine the Powers that on this trio wait. Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate. Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great.

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

A weed is but an unloved flower.

There is nothing we cannot live down, and rise above, and overcome.

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I've come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself.

Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped

Who wants to go to school and be asked for, like, 20 autographs?

Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us.

Don't criticize nature, stand in awe of it.

The presidency is not an office job. If I only sit in the office in Dar es Salaam I'm not running the country.

My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.

I'm always that annoying person that pulls out the camera in the middle of dinner and starts taking candids.

For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy.

I feel very fortunate to be an actor on a network whose tag line is Characters Welcome and not Procedurals Welcome.