As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent.

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.

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.

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

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.

Real limitations can be reasonably challenged and expanded, but a hobbled mind is not going anywhere.

It was the look on her face when she said it. And how much she meant it. It suddenly made everything seem like it really was. I felt terrible. Just terrible.

(...) Since I was a kid.""Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'""Right.

Before you deal out your moral judgement on me, perhaps you should ask yourself what you did.

Zeal should not outrun discretion.

There are probably close to a million people in the hospitality industry here in the United States, and there are probably only a few hundred opportunities in the food media industry.

Cry when you get a Golden Globe. Then you can get an Oscar nomination.

I'm an American by birth, but I'm a Texan by the Grace of God.

I hope you find what you're looking for.