Our fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure.

You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.

We should take heart from our own experience and performance. In a cynical world we have become an inspiration to many.

There are leaders who know that however furious the debate, there are good men and women in all population groups - amongst blacks, amongst whites, and amongst Afrikaans and English speaking people.

These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation

The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope.