my thoughts are like quick little fish that swim out of my grasp.

But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me.

African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.

And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources.

Age is wisdom if one has lived ones life properly.