There are two levers for moving men, interest and fear.

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.

Ethiopia has always held a special place in my own imagination and the prospect of visiting attracted me more strongly than a trip to France, England and America combined. I felt I would be visiting my own genesis, unearthing the roots of what made me an African. Meeting the emperor himself would be like shaking hands with history.