Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

There is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial; and when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

It is not our diversity which divides us; it is not our ethnicity, or religion or culture that divides us. Since we have achieved our freedom, there can only be one division amongst us: between those who cherish democracy and those who do not.