Your pain and sufferings can only make you stronger if you aren't repeatedly placing negative interpretations them.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

The little lake you love is the biggest ocean for you!

Treat not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.

Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence.

... the estranged self, hidden with its inexhaustible potential, lies undiscovered by many people who die without even knowing that it exists.

Don't let other people's conversations about what you're doing or you've done be part of your own conversation.

Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.

Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.

... we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most valuable attribute.

Didier Drogba and Samuel Eto'o, two fantastic African footballers. So successful. And very nice characters as well. I got the luck to know them personally. They helped me a lot.