Our economic approach to food and its distribution reflects our basic moral values.

Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.

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.

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.

Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

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