I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

There is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires

On the The AIDS Epidemic: This is a war. It has killed more people than has been the case in all previous wars and in all previous natural disasters ... We must not continue to be debating, to be arguing, when people are dying.

History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.

Of course we desire education and we think it is a good thing, but you don't have to have education in order to know that you want certain fundamental rights, you have got aspirations, you have got acclaims. It has nothing to do with education whatsoever.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Together as a nation, we have the obligation to put sunshine into the hearts of our little ones. They are our precious possessions. They deserve what happiness life can offer.