It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is in your hands.

These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.

It enables me to go to bed with an enriching feeling in my soul and the belief that I am changing myself.

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

I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

I've found that South Africa has produced good leaders. These are people who realize that when there is danger, they should be in the forefront and when there is victory to be celebrated, they should be in the background, allowing their colleagues and the ordinary civilians - the man in the street - to rejoice and to celebrate that victory.

In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education... But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualities which are within easy reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life.