For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty

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.

[A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light.

Call me a Freak all u want really...I honestly take it as a compliment everytime. No matter how it was intended.

Think for now.... when you reach where you wanted, think there and there and finally you will be there where you wanted.

Toronto as a city carries out the idea of Canada as a country. It is a calculated crime against the aspirations of the soul and the affection of the heart.

To desire to be an artist is to desire to be a complete man in respect to some one function, to realize yourself utterly. A man is a poor thing who is content not to be an artist.

The joy that compassion brings is one of the best-kept secrets of humanity. It is a secret known only to a very few people, a secret that has to be rediscovered over and over again.

The only constant factor in life is our feelings and attitudes toward life. One of the few things that we have total control over is our own attitude.

Have you ever been - well, I mean, have you ever - really wanted someone? Wanted them like water in the desert - even when you knew all their faults, every single one - and it didn't matter ?

Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.

No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.