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!

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.

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.

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

A father is a man who fails every day.

Surround yourself with positive people and you'll be a positive person.

It's my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.

If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to believe it is cool.

The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.

I think, at the end of the day, the real antagonist is the brokenness of humanity.

One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city.

Remember: Marriage is the number one cause of divorce

I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.

My parents are awesome, but they're pretty left-wing.