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.

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.

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.

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

No one can be managed or led, people are inspired and cared for.

If what we learn is no more than what we expect to learn, then we have learned nothing at all.

When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes but few have the gift of penetration.

But our culture is in truly bad shape if we have come to define respecting something as the failure to set it on fire.

Everyone is a proponent of strong encryption.

Everyone loves to fly and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you.

Actually when I'm depressed or feeling down, I seem to play quiet music and enjoy the time. So I listen to a lot of ballads and I try to enjoy the time with music.

I was raised with the idea of beauty in a different way. To me, it is something that really comes out of you and surrounds you.

History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.