Our differences are our strength as a species and as a world community.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Lead from the front - but don t leave your base behind.

Regarding African education in this country, there was a time when the government took no interest whatsoever in African education. It was the churches, that part of civil society, which bought land, built schools, and employed and paid teachers. People like myself, right from grade eight up to university, I was in missionary schools.

Blaming things on the past does not make them better.

A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a taste of freedom.

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