We slaughter one another in our words and attitudes. We slaughter one another in the stereotypes and mistrust that linger in our heads, and the words of hate we spew from our lips.

[I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.

For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them.

A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

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.

We can't fight AIDS unless we do much more to fight TB as well.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up