You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.

The world remains beset by so much human suffering, poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world a better one for all, especially the poor, vulnerable and marginalised.

The greatest single challenge facing our globalised world is to combat and eradicate its disparities.

Hating clouds the mind. It gets in the way of strategy. Leaders cannot afford to hate

Men come and men go, I have come and I will go when my time comes

Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.

We are extricating ourselves from a system that insulted our common humanity by dividing us from one another on the basis of race and setting us against each other as oppressed and oppressor. That system committed a crime against humanity.