"I was always the smallest guy on the field."

“I did Showtime at the Apollo when I was 10, and it was the first time that Id ever performed on TV, and it felt great.”

“AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.”

Source : "Mbeki vows to step up AIDS fight". www.cnn.com. February 8, 2002.

“If we fail to act, we will end up with a different planet.”

“What to do about climate change is political, it's social, and it's moral, which is one of the reasons the scientific community reached out to the Pope, to ask for his involvement in this issue.”

Source : Source: to.pbs.org

“My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!”

“I've tried to decentralize and interpenetrate so that all parts of a painting are of related value...”

Source : "Abstract Expressionism". Book by Barbara Hess, Taschen, Köln, p. 60, 2006.

“What made the beauty of the moon? And the beauty of the sea? Did that beauty made you? Did that beauty make me? Will that make me something? Will I be something? Am I something? And the answer comes: already am, always was, and I still have time to be.”

“I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.”

Source : "Next Factor Q&A: 'Apart' Star Olesya Rulin". Interview with Elizabeth Durand, www.mtv.com. March 5, 2012.