If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.

There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.

Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.

Well-trained medical doctors and engineers leave Nigeria to the developed countries. We want to reverse that.

I always thought that farts were funny and I always thought that they were mine to talk about because they came out of my body.

I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected.

I wouldn't say there is one guy that I would say patterns himself after me.

The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.

I will not change. Because if you are successful and you change, you are an idiot.

This is where I started life. This is where I went to uni. This is where the people I know are. This is my country, and when I put on my Great Britain vest, I'm proud, very proud, that it's my country.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends

What the fashion system says and what the fashion customer says are really two different things.

Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good.

When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generated pulses more or less randomly. The end result is a kind of music that continuously changes. Of course, until computers came along, all I could actually present of that work was a piece of its output.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel.

We never waste space saying, "On the one hand." We just state an opinion in a Godlike voice.

When you start to lower the volume of the inner voice that’s making you feel bad, the more of a melody starts to play in your head with good thoughts.

My children just want to get at the world; it is so pleasantly surprising to witness that.

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

The obvious objections to the execution of Saddam Hussein are valid and well aired. His death will provoke violent strife between Sunni and Shia Muslims, and between Iraqis in general and the American occupation forces.

There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind. You're planting new seeds. But it's also scary, because there's no safety net.

Where in the world would I rather be than on the front line of history?

My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.

David Letterman was my guy growing up. My parents recorded the tenth anniversary special for me, and I watched it 40 times.