perspective

"I ate a dog today."
- A South-African's response to Dave Chapelle [born 1973] who escaped to that country after bailing on a $50 million development agreement with Comedy Central.

The Maestro and The Master

Building an opera house in St. Petersburg here.

on holding a grudge ...

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”

- Nelson Mandela

chef

"Building a company is like baking a cake - you have to have all the right ingredients in the right place."
- Elon Musk

"It always seems impossible until it's done."
- Nelson Mandela

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but triumphing over it."
- Nelson Mandela

"I find acting embarrassing."
- Charlize Theron

safari through the land of apartheid

"Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change."
- Robert F. Kennedy [1925-1968], Johannesburg, South Africa, 1966