There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.

The call now is for each of us to ask ourselves: are we doing all we can to help build the country of our dreams?

The most difficult matter is not so much to change the world as yourself.

I am the captain of my soul.

The wounds that cannot be seen are more painful than those that can be treated by a doctor.

You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.

Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial; and when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another.

Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.

The time is always right to do right.

The New World Order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all.

Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.

We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success.

No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.

There is nothing more dangerous than a humiliated man.

An organisation can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no real progress

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty.

Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions.

To the youth of today, I also have a wish to make: be the scriptwriters of your destiny and feature yourselves as stars that showed the way towards a brighter future.