As the years progress one increasingly realises the importance of friendship and human solidarity. And if a 90-year-old may offer some unsolicited advice on this occasion, it would be that you, irrespective of your age, should place human solidarity, the concern for the other, at the centre of the values by which you live.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.

A movement without vision would be a movement without moral foundation.

If you are negotiating you must do so in a spirit of reconciliation, not from the point of view of issuing ultimatums.

I was made, by the law, a criminal, not because of what I had done, but because of what I stood for, because of what I thought, because of my conscience... If I had my time over I would do the same again. So would any man who dares call himself a man.

Soccer is one of the most unifying activities amongst us.