A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable

Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during the best of times.

Our experience over the last 20 years has shown that indeed people must themselves become their own liberators. You cannot wait for somebody else to come and rescue you.

We should never become despondent because the weather is bad, nor should we turn triumphalist because the sun shines.

As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent.

When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.

Does HIV cause AIDS? Can a virus cause a syndrome? How? It can't, because a syndrome is a group of diseases resulting from acquired immune deficiency.

None dare challenge me when i say i am an Afrikan.

The problem is not a lack of understanding of what we are saying and doing; the problem is difference of opinion about what to do.

We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest

All is changed, changed utterlyA terrible beauty is born

Every violent storm will eventually give way to sunshine

Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill they come only when they hurt.

Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.

I've got a girl that I love so, hey Loddy Loddy Lo.

Things that don't get better, get worse.

I had abandoned my plans for priesthood and replaced them with dreams of being a musician.

I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly.

I like it when girls are screaming for me. It makes me feel really player-like. I enjoy being out there, delivering my songs, and putting a face to the music.

The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.