It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope.

It is a crime to despair. We must learn to draw from misfortune the means of future strength.

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.

Who are the least of these? They are the thousands of individuals who see life as a long and desolate corridor with no exit sign.