The most difficult matter is not so much to change the world as yourself.

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.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.

I never think of the time I have lost. I just carry out a programme because it's there. It's mapped out for me.

Millions of people in the world's poorest countries remain enslaved by the chains of poverty. It is time to set them free.

I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. There was no particular day on which I said, Henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise.