"For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in."

"I just hope that the democratic will of the Zimbabwean people prevails. If it does we must move quickly to help restore stability and prosperity."

"Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times."

"There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth."

"To master the mind is to understand that every step forward is a victory over stagnation."

"People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve."

"I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer."

"It is a timeless truth that do not hurry what nature takes seasons to unfold."