We are improving the entirety of the system. You have got to make the grants available.

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.

That's a man's vital spot, the helpless thing he loves. ("Jane Brown's Body")

Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won.

Laughing is so therapeutic but what is even more therapeutic is having someone laugh out loud with you.

Having worked for him in the nuclear weapons policy business, I can tell you that President Reagan was committed to assuring the effectiveness of our nuclear deterrent.

Some people meditate because they are sick and tired of their life, of the world, of the way people abuse each other and abrogate each other's freedoms.

The kick [of comedy] is to think quickly. It's a great kick.

From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that's where the beauty is.

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

Holy communion is to feel one with the One in all beings and creations.

The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief.