I have absolutely no problem with the press criticising policies and the things that we do, the things that we say.

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.

Sadness is the heart withdrawing to seek shelter from the pain.

Sweet words are like honey a little may refresh but too much gluts the stomach.

Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.

You have to treat yourself every once in a while, get to the fun stuff!

How many are worried about a government shutdown? How many are more worried about it starting back up?

You can't go through life without your heart being bruised or broken. Otherwise, you're not truly, fully, a person.

I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.

Clay is one of the best things you can put in your body.

I'm a really good swimmer.

Ships are but boards, sailors but men.