I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas..

Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele..

Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic..

Things [only] exist once they are represented..

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on..

Take what you got and fly with it..

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that..

I am not an African. I am an American..

I'm a big fan of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the French photographer who had that whole "decisive moment" approach to taking pictures, of having multiple ….

Politics is a highly tribal business..

No one survives life..

There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and someth….

We are here a nation, composed of the most heterogeneous elements-Protestants and Catholics, English, French, German, Irish, Scotch, every one, let i….

Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are ….

Charge for something and make more than you spend..

If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire..

Strength is for service, not status.

Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing..

I don't pull, I just receive..

You can change so many things in your life, but you cannot change where you come from. It's something that you have to deal with: the role everybody ….