We must also know that even before liberation in 1994 there [in South Africa] were people with resources who tried to share with those who were deprived.

I feel like a young man of 15.

The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. We have not taken the final step of our journey, but the first step on a longer and even more difficult road. For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. The true test of our devotion to freedom is just beginning.

Rhetoric is not important. Actions are.

If we want any significant development, we must co-opt civil society.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.