Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.

When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another. And I know for sure that in the final analysis of our lives-when the to-do lists are no more, when the frenzy is finished, when our email inboxes are empty-the only thing that will have any lasting value is whether we've loved others and whether they've loved us.

I believe that in the end that it is kindness and accommodation that are all the catalysts for real change.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.