As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Leaders will have to give clear and decisive leadership towards a world of tolerance and respect for difference, and an uncompromising commitment to peaceful solutions of conflicts and disputes.

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.

The day I am afraid to do, that is the day I am no longer fit to lead.

I believe that in the end that it is kindness and accommodation that are all the catalysts for real change.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.