Life isn’t happening to you; life is responding to you. Life is your call! Every area of your life is your call. You are the creator of your life. Yo….

The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance..

Nothing chastens a planner more than the knowledge that he will have to carry out the plan..

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Afric….

Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail - in other words summarise inten….

Thought is borne of failure..

The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand have sprung from ….

What happened in the interim is, billions of records have been digitized. Historians and scholars have always used genealogical records to tell the s….

I want to be remembered as someone who tried to bring the story of our ancestors to the broadest possible audience. I want to be remembered as a man ….

I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories..

The Point of Power Is in the Present..

And nobody had told them that they were short on time..

The future did not arrive..

The story of the movie [Romeo + Juliet] is timeless. It's relevant then..

I've had everything pierced at some point..

I wish I had a funny story..

I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to….

Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work..

Obviously because of my personal connection to Mandela and having had his story as part of my childhood, I knew how awesome he was..

You want to tell a great story. You want these characters to become part of people's lives. And then, hopefully, that generates discussion..

We, as producers, want to tell the best stories. We want to tell the stories that people will talk about..