If you want to change the world, help the women.

Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation. They will be the leaders of our country, the creators of our national wealth, those who care for and protect our people.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

The more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are.

Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people - men and women, boys and girls - that make the world a special place

We should never forget those on whose shoulders we stand and those who paid the supreme price for freedom.

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.