The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.

What we did was to try and exploit that spirit [the idea of giving], which was there even before I approached individual South Africans [to give to the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund]. I think we must start from that angle.

Where people of goodwill get together and transcend their differences for the common good, peaceful and just solutions can be found even for those problems which seem most intractable.

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

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action.

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