We understand and promote the notion that while children need to be guided they also have an entrenched right to be whatever they want to be and that they can achieve this only if they are given the space to dream and live out their dreams.

Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.

That was one of the things that worried me – to be raised to the position of a semi-god – because then you are no longer a human being. I wanted to be known as Mandela, a man with weaknesses, some of which are fundamental, and a man who is committed, but never the less, sometimes he fails to live up to expectations.

The Commonwealth makes the world safe for diversity

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place.

Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.