What we did was to try and exploit that spirit [the idea of giving], which was there even before I approached individual South Africans [to give to the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund]. I think we must start from that angle.

As the years progress one increasingly realises the importance of friendship and human solidarity. And if a 90-year-old may offer some unsolicited advice on this occasion, it would be that you, irrespective of your age, should place human solidarity, the concern for the other, at the centre of the values by which you live.

The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.

Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past,by building a future based on equality&social justice

In the 21st Century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right.

The private sector granted bursaries [scholarships] for the children of their workers. Some of them built homes for their workers. They had in-service training, which improved the skills of their workers. So that spirit was there. All we did was merely exploit it.

I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness.