When kids are young, before the age of ten, there is a critical window of opportunity when their habits and motivations can be influenced.

Female success stories from sporting events like the Olympic Games have played a role in shifting the Indian perception to see the female athlete as a hero and a role model for young Indian girls.

Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant.

Sport is one of the few spaces where people can learn about different cultures in a spirit of trust and friendship.

If women are the key to Africa's future - and I believe they are - we must figure out how to take away the barriers to their participation.

For African societies, no issue looms larger than employment. Only vibrant entrepreneurship and thriving small businesses can hope to provide the millions of jobs that are needed.

Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for others and also for oneself.

Bringing more large sporting events to Africa would help the continent develop sports policies and at the same time optimize its peoples' chances of achieving competitive success.

Improving Africa's farming sector would have multiple positive outcomes for African people.

Inspiration, in its rich variety, must be present in any discussion about Africa. We need role models - they are essential to the advancement of our society.

It is my firm belief that action on the issues that matter for Africa must emerge from within Africa itself.

Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.

She felt the depth of her losses before they were realized, and she wondered, Is there still hope? Did she even dare hold on to such a tenuous thing as hope?

Parents are not worried about young-ones’ failure, but only concerned about their lack of efforts. Youth who understand and address parents’ dilemma are the forerunners in life.

For me a simple message, to think and act with courage, independence and imagination.

I think the human body is beautiful, and I don't really have a huge problem in dealing with it, but it's the context, the environment and what I feel about it that that makes the difference for me.

We are not born to wait. We are born to do.

Love’em or hate’em, by blood or by heart, family was a kind of oxygen. Necessary for the living.

I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.

We've learned to see the world in gasps.

If you try to serve people, it impresses them. If you try to impress people it irritates them.