I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.

True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.

We cannot proclaim this century the African Century and then ignore the AIDS pandemic, as some political leaders are apt to do. To claim this century the African Century is to declare war on AIDS.

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

Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.

I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.

It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism, to conduct discussions as if he or she is a schoolmaster talking to less informed and inexperienced learners.