The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

But you see, a rich country like America can perhaps afford to be stupid.

It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs.

Optimists anticipate problems, welcome them, and challenge them. Thus, eventually they defeat their problems.

Only a man who has his health, a full stomach and wears clean clothes would ever entertain the notion of tracking down the greatest lost city on Earth.

Let your soul bloom like a flower with the beauty and fragrance of divine love.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

The future belongs to him that does and dares.

The only thing missing in any situation is that in which you are not giving

Silence is an answer to a wise man.

When a house is tottering to its fall, The strain lies heaviest on the weakest part, One tiny crack throughout the structure spreads, And its own weight soon brings it toppling down.

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

If first of all you have a wrong idea, then it's kind of wasting time. No matter how hard that you try with a wrong idea, it makes it difficult to be successful.