If I am your leader, you have to listen to me & if you don’t want to listen to me, then drop me as your leader

I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away.

It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.

To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and free from danger.

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism, to conduct discussions as if he or she is a schoolmaster talking to less informed and inexperienced learners.

I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.