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.

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.

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.

Because I don’t believe that you are a slave to what you’ve become. I don’t believe that you simply can’t.

When you betray your own heart, you suffer for life. Always be true to your heart!

You can like an immoral character because she’s interesting, not because you want to have her over for dinner.

Don't make a career out of underestimating me." — Claire de Haven

There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it.

If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship can never end; to be is to be related.

"Influence" is itself influenced, coming from an Italian word for the outbreak of a disease (influenza, outbreak). Influence is that which flows across - permeates - the boundaries of the self.

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

Lit majors are not known for watching where they're going; most of us walk with our eyes in a book instead of on the path ahead.