The people of Zimbabwe have a responsibility to ensure that the government that they elected behaves properly.

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.

Suddenly, in my mind I hear my father say, 'Mind over matter, son. You can do this. You can accomplish anything as long as you really want to.

I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.

One should not think of embracing another religion before one had fully understand his own.

Either you can lie down or you can stand up and say, 'I'm going to be a man about it, go out and deal with the pain and help my team win.'

- Some men think because they are afraid to do. - There is a difference between fear and caution.

I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.

It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate.

I never went too long without a job. The problem was a lot of the early jobs are almost more demoralizing than unemployment.

Alabama soldiers, all I ask of you is to keep up with the Texans!

With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.