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.

Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people.

When people are determined, they can overcome anything.

As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

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.

I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

I am not a saint unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.