Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

When I closed THE GRAPES OF WRATH, I was a different man. It enriched my powers of thinking and discipline, and my relationships. I left prison more informed than when I went in. And the more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are.

I never think of the time I have lost. I just carry out a programme because it's there. It's mapped out for me.

Our society needs to re-establish a culture of caring.

I appeal to the Youth and those on the ground: start talking to each other across divisions of race and political organizations.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

The suffering inflicted, and more often than not on the most vulnerable sectors of society, demeans all of us as humanity. That it is invariably women, children, the aged and disabled who suffer in these conflicts stands to the added shame of humankind.