Until you are somewhat comfortable and confident and embrace who you are, as a person, you can't possibly love somebody else because you don't like yourself that much.

The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.

I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.

America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.

I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.

I am happy, and I have many reasons to be extra-happy nowadays. Life is calm, and the career is good and taking its course. And things are moving, things are moving ahead.

I hope more people will ask diamond companies to continue changing the way they do business in Africa.

If anything, Calvin Klein is the iconic company in terms of fashion. They do have iconic images for their campaigns.

Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.

Love is an involuntary gift that manifests unplanned.

FAITES L'AMOUR ET RECOMMENCEZ (make love and make it again)

Poets and painters are outside the class system or rather they constitute a special class of their own like the circus people and the gypsies.

Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.

It's not enough to be right because he [Rick Perry] is right, you got to be persuasively right, got to be intellectually agile, and I think he can do it.

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

On Furnishing One's Home - Pick your furniture like you pick a wife; it should make you feel comfortable and look nice, but not so nice that if someone walks past it they want to steal it.

Where did you get that idea for a nose? - Frizz Mizuno

The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission