Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.

African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don’t care anymore. I’m more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves – how, as a writer, I find that African writers have always been...

Runners and yogis are alike in lots of ways, and not just because some of us need yoga to unkink what running jams. Runners and yogis are also alike because of this tortoise shell idea,...

I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

Four years ago maybe we thought we were inferior to Brazil, subconsciously we didn’t see ourselves beating them. Now we believe in ourselves, we can be on the pitch with any team in the world...

[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which...

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

The advantage does lie with us because we’re at home and if we can’t motivate ourselves for this match then we can’t motivate ourselves for any match. I think the crowd will be up for...

Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it’s about everyday lives.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world.

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain’s saving grace.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

As actors we give so much of ourselves away so I like to keep my personal life to myself.