People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe.

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

This great son of the world, Madiba, showed us the way. Whether you are white, black yellow or brown you are all God's children, come together, work together and God will show you the way.

The moment you have protected an individual, you have protected society.

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

Westerners have aggressive problem-solving minds; Africans experience people.

Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest.

War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant and grow a crop in the ground you have won at such a terrible cost.

My own child, one of them, died of AIDS. A brilliant boy.

The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways -- through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.

I fight AIDS because it's a killer disease, destroys the human race in all fields.

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

we may always find a great and a beautiful city in the world for ourselves but the most precious and finest city to live in is our mind

On 'The Office, ' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.

There is a God! the sky his presence shares, His hand upheaves the billows in their mirth, Destroys the mighty, yet the humble spares And with contentment crowns the thought of worth.

I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.

If words had flavors, hers would be bitter almonds and coffee grounds.

That which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort.

I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak.

Hatred and bitterness and anger only consume the vessel that contains them. It doesn't hurt another soul.

I had all my own teeth and I wanted to keep it that way.