Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.

I would like it to be said: here lies a man who has done his duty on earth

To the youth of today, I also have a wish to make: be the scriptwriters of your destiny and feature yourselves as stars that showed the way towards a brighter future.

Why is the United States behaving so arrogantly? All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil.

Like all Xhosa children, I acquired knowledge mainly through observation. We were meant to learn through imitation and emulation, not through questions. When I first visited the homes of whites, I was often dumbfounded by the number and nature of questions that children asked of their parents-and their parents' unfailing willingness to answer them. In my household, questions were considered a nuisance; adults imparted information as they considered necessary.

The history of struggle is rich with stories of heroes and heroines - some of them leaders, some of them followers, all of them deserve to be remembered.

Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.