The New World Order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all.

There is no future without forgiveness

I shall stick to our vow: never, never under any circumstances, to say anything unbecoming of the other...The trouble, of course, is that most successful men are prone to some form of vanity. There comes a stage in their lives when they consider it permissible to be egotistic and to brag to the public at large about their unique achievements.

[I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.

I was called a terrorist yesterday... Today I am admired by the very people who said I was one.