"No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair."

“Happiness is the ability to move forward, knowing the future will be better than the past.”

“I think the idea, first and foremost, is to understand that people may label these characters as villains, but at the end of the day I have to fall in love with the characters that I play. For me, they have to be real characters with real objectives, and driving forces. So they're all different.”

Source : "No Rest for the Wicked: Edi Gathegi Talks 'Criminal Activities', 'The Blacklist' and Playing Villainous Characters". Interview with Aramide Tinubu, www.indiewire.com. November 19, 2015.

“These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.”

“Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.”

“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.”

“You must not only have competitiveness but ability, regardless of the circumstance you face, to never quit”

“I believe Marco Rubio is going to win Florida, I think Ted Cruz is going to win his Alamo in Texas. I think old rules apply. John Kasich's going to win Ohio as well.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

“Think colour! Know how to imagine it!”