With me, as a town clerk or city manager, there are certain things that I'm supposed to do - if I don't do them, then I don't deserve to continue in this post.

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.

Death is very often referred to as a good career move.

Anything that I can do with my voice thats good, Ill try to do.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

The stereotype of aging as a progressive loss of function is generally true only for people who stop functioning.

When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.

What is bought is cheaper than a gift.

The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.

... freedom isn't the absence of boundaries; it's the ability to operate successfully and happily within boundaries.

That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.

A higher concept of yourself involves taking on new truths and shedding your old views of what you can achieve. This is the only way you can achieve your desires.