We have to continue to confront the challenge of corruption within the public service.

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.

People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul...

A leader would think that most people overestimate what they can do in a year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

Defeat is not worth thinking about.

What is a secret wish?" "It is what you want but cannot ask.

Sanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals.

You can never tell what the public will think! But when something goes well and is well-received, it's a great surprise!

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

Be original, stop pretending to be someone you are not, be your own light in this world.

We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.

Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.