This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins.

An opportunity to work is good luck for me. I put my soul into it. Each such opportunity opens the gates for the next one.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Essentially our task was to create the conditions in which every South African has the opportunity to create a better life for themselves. But government cannot meet these challenges by itself. It requires of us all to pull together, into a partnership, in order to bring about the necessary changes.