After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

We can neither heal nor build if, on the one hand the rich in our society see the poor as hordes of irritants or if on the other hand the poor sit back, expecting charity. All of us must take responsibility for the upliftment of our conditions, prepared to give our best to the benefit of all

There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly.

Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

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

In prison, illusions can offer comfort.