“I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.”

We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.

You must have perseverance, and then you must have wisdom. Then you combine these four and then you get to where you want to get to.

If you want democracy, you have got to be prepared to accept the responsibilities of democracy.

Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.

It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.

A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success.

It is not a sacrifice, it’s a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn’t say it’s a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it

Regimented minds cannot grasp the concept of confrontation as an open exchange of major differences with a view to settlement through genuine dialogue.

We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

The peace of our world is indivisible. As long as negative forces are getting the better of positive forces anywhere, we are all at risk.

We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.

How could I stand the separation from family and friends? It is ironic, I say, that in an authoritarian state it is only the prisoner of conscience who is genuinely free. Yes, we have given up our right to a normal life. But we have stayed true to that most precious part of our humanity-our conscience.

People ask me about what sacrifices I’ve made. I always answer: I’ve made no sacrifices, I’ve made choices.

Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.

Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.

At Indy, we are the NASA of the production-car world, and that’s clearly why manufacturers are involved – it’s such a good testbed.

The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.

Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.