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

It is important to not be hostile to what a greater part of society has embraced, whether as Christians, Hindus or Muslims. It is important to respect that because whether you believe or not in the existence of a superior being, humanity does believe in that.

I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be proud of such customs.

We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success.

You have a limited time to stay on earth. You must try to use that period for the purpose of transforming your country into what you desire it to be: a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist country. And that is a great task.

I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life.

We now undertake that we cannot rest while millions of our people suffer the pain and indignity of poverty in all its forms.