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

There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world - to an individual or to a nation.

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

Some people like to remain in 'Nirasha'. And they are not satisfied till they have spoken about it to other people.

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

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.