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 what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.

Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair

Ethiopia always has a special place in my imagination and the prospect of visiting Ethiopia attracted me more strongly than a trip to France, England, and America combined. I felt I would be visiting my own genesis, unearthing the roots of what made me an African.

I was able to change my life by knowing that if somebody does something good for you, you have to respond.

When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.