You should do everything as if it's the last time you might ever do it. Because, you know, it may be.

Saigon is hot, full of atmosphere, activity, and commerce.

Elizabeth Hurley and I had a lot of fun together. She's a very beautiful, confident woman.

As a young man I prayed for success. Now I just pray to be worthy of it.

I don't believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for.

I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.

Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash

Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.

Careers go in cycles. I've plateau-ed. I've been at the bottom of the ocean... You win some, you lose some.

To swing or not to swing? Swing.

Never let life's hardships disturb you ... no one can avoid problems not even saints or sages.

I think these questions about what will happen are questions for activists and about the agency of people in the course of events. This is not a question for a journalist, but for activists.

I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.

The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.

If you feel overwhelmed, you may be trying to achieve too much at once. Step back and look at your goals. If you're doing too much, it's time to reprioritize.

At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.

On the battlefield of ideas, winning requires moving toward the sound of the guns.

And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the fashioning of which you have poured your soul.

We might remember ... not to fear death; it is the only way to be cleansed.

I identify myself as a Nigerian because that is where I was born and raised and where my family still lives.