I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.