Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice can be perpetuated by the capacity to kill, or that disputes are necessarily best resolved by resort to violent means.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

Be a life long student, read as many books as possible.

True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.

An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy

I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness.

With freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk has not ended yet.