Exercise is the key not only to physical health but to peace of mind.

Rhetoric is not important. Actions are.

Sport has the power to change the world... Sport can awaken hope where there was previously only despair.

Our fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.

We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.

Like all Xhosa children, I acquired knowledge mainly through observation. We were meant to learn through imitation and emulation, not through questions. When I first visited the homes of whites, I was often dumbfounded by the number and nature of questions that children asked of their parents-and their parents' unfailing willingness to answer them. In my household, questions were considered a nuisance; adults imparted information as they considered necessary.