If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.

The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief’s bugle, but where to blow it.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.

It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.