Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.

No matter how diligent or persistent you have been, there is not one of us who made this journey toward success by ourselves.

I believe there's a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives is to become aware. And awakened. To answer the call.

Anybody pretending to be anything other than who you really are-you will never, ever reach your personal potential.

I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

Interviewing people, I don't miss that at all. I do miss kibitzing with the audience because after every show I would spend half an hour to 40 minutes talking to people.