I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.

I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life.

Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

We have introduced a rule of law into many sections of our public life.

People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, generosity and an absence of variety. You learn to look into yourself.

I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.