There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.

If you don’t intend having a compromise, you don’t negotiate at all.

I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days.

The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.

I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.

I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be proud of such customs.

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