Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.

We must nurture tolerance, collective wisdom, and democracy.

The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

During the years I lived here, the people of Alexandra ignored tribal and ethnic distinctions. Instead of being Xhosas, or Sothos, or Zulus, or Shangaans, we were Alexandrans. We were one people, and we undermined the distinctions that the apartheid government tried so hard to impose. It saddens and angers me to see the rising hatred of foreigners.

The world is truly round and seems to start and end with those we love.

Hope is a powerful weapon, and (one) no one power on earth can deprive you of.