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.

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 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.

But, self, that thing was on TV, and this one wants to tear your liver out your nose. Run.

Who ran to help me when I fell And would some pretty story tell Or kiss the place to make it well? My Mother.

I hope to grow another head and two more hands, like an Indian goddess.

I feel vulnerable when I am underprepared. This applies to underpreparedness with just about anything, especially work.

Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.

I guess that's the major difference between '80s-club Madonna and today's Madonna is she can get anyone she wants to show up in the studio for her.

The library, to me, is the second most sacred physical space on the planet.

A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, sort of the three big hitters on the Republican side.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.