If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

Now we are in the second term of the government of a united nation and the government has done very well. One thing they have done, one thing people could not be blind to, was the achievement this government has made in giving human beings dignity, which they did not enjoy before. They now have dignity.

There is no doubt that the United States now feels that they are the only superpower in the world and they can do what they like.

I will use the rest of my life to help the poor overcome the problems confronting them - poverty is the greatest challenge facing humanity. That is why I build schools; I want to free people from poverty and illiteracy.

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.