Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be.

Take it upon yourself where you live to make people around you joyful and full of hope.

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.

I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.

Let's hope that Ken Oosterbroek will be the last person to die.

We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people. We enter into a covenant that we shall build the society in which all South Africans, both black and white, will be able to walk tall, without any fear in their hearts, assured of their inalienable right to human dignity - a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world.