AIDS today in Africa is claiming more lives than the sum total of all wars, famines and floods and the ravages of such deadly diseases as malaria ... We must act now for the sake of the world.

You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.

We can't afford to be killing one another.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

There are many people who have worked just because they love the community in which they are in, without expecting any financial consideration.

The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.

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