Nobody can teach me who I am.

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

I think the language that we use in dealing with one another is very important. And even if I am called upon to bring out some money to support a regime, and I am entitled to say I do not like what that regime does and obviously I am not going to put money there - you cannot really say this is wrong or this is unreasonable.

My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered

Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.

A budding writer wants to be encouraged.

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands.