If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.

Never, never let a person know you're frightened. And a group of them ... absolutely never. Fear brings out the worst in everybody.

Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears.

I am a child of God. I always carry that with me.

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.