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.

The first election in which all South Africans took part was in April, 1994. There were long queues [lines] of employers and employees, black and white. In the sense of Africans, Coloreds and Indians - when I talk about blacks, I mean those three. Blacks and whites mingled to vote without any hitches. Many people would have expected a great deal of tension, clashes and violence, but it did not occur.

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

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then we are free.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.