At the current pace of change, we won't have universal access to education in 100 years, let alone five, and that is unacceptable.

I think it's my energy and love of life that has been the real key to my fame and success.

You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.

I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.

It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent.

I'm a firm believer that education is the most efficient tool we have to make people aware and make our children aware, and to protect them from the scourge of the century, which is AIDS

Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me.