In order to build our nation, we must all exceed our own expectations.

One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.

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

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up

In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education... But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualities which are within easy reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.

The anchor of all my dreams is the collective wisdom of mankind as a whole.