Growing up, I was very aware that there weren't many people like me on the screen.

I don't know what I'm going to do tomorrow. I just know for sure I'm going to keep playing basketball.

Having buildings, growth models, having great progress, flyovers, and no human being is feeling for human being is a nightmare scenario.

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

There must be free and open interdepartmental discussion and consideration of everyone's ideas and opinions. These internal discussions must not be considered an invasion of turf, and must remain private... When everyone is on the same page, trust develops, and teams can grow and succeed together.

I try to make my kids happy, so when they grow up they can look back and see a father who did important things for their country and tried to make history.

People are more than two-dimensional, and again I think the complexities in life, and in one's makeup, grow as you get older, partly through experience.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

As a children's author, you get to advocate for reading and writing in general, in a way an adult author might not be able to. It's a really interesting dance we do to get literature into the hands of young people and to help them to become literate and become readers; we want them to grow up reading and continue to do so when they're adults.

We can't grow as a party, if we're afraid of having difficult conversations.

The demonstrators in Ukraine will persevere and succeed, or grow tired, cold and fade.

In their pursuit of growth and diversification, African economies should consider transforming the discourse from a focus on industrialisation to a broader one centred on value addition in agriculture, manufacturing, and services.

Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.

Every dollar the government doesn't spend, tax, or borrow is a dollar that businesses and families can spend or invest themselves.

I always like to grow, and I recognise that the Yellow Submarine have helped me.

If developed countries' citizens want to feel slightly better about their economies' slow growth and high unemployment, they should contemplate how much worse matters could be without the institutions that they have.

It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.

It's good to always try to learn and try to grow.

Don't be guilty of ignoring symptoms of rebellion when your children are small. Don't simply excuse it as a stage they are going through and think that they will grow out of it. If you ignore it when they are small, you won't be able to handle it when they get older and the rebellion has had time to develop into a strong force.

My daughter is very strong-willed and is a great kid. She doesn't drink. She doesn't smoke. She doesn't fold to peer pressure. I think how affectionate my wife and I have been with her over the years all plays into that. She realizes the more people she is exposed to that kids who have both parents around grow up to be much better people.