Clearly, we are very, very concerned about the situation, for instance, that has been going on in Gaza.

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.

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

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.

I didn’t say a word. He wouldn’t be using oxygen. K2 is more dangerous than Everest.

The night has a thousand eyesAnd the day but oneYet the light of the bright world dies with the dying sun.

Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.

Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture

I don't see scary films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.

The less there is of eloquence, the more there is of love.

I ain't askin' nobody for nuttin' if I cain't get it on my own.

We call metaphysics the Science of Life, because to know pure metaphysics is to renew the life and make death and accident impossible.

For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage.

It's fun to play mom. Last I knew I was playing a 17-year-old who graduated.