Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.

Now, if you want to know my secret love, it is to be able to serve as an example.

An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place.

The ultimate expression of generosity is not in giving of what you have, but in giving of who you are.

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.