Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.

South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.

I have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute another.

I think that most of us would say that ubuntu basically speaks about what it means to be human.

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.

We give kudos to people who have succeeded. We don't care in what they succeeded as long as they succeeded. The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

We have an incredible capacity for the worst possible evil, all of us, it was that we also have this incredible capacity for good. And that is why we are all of us appalled when something bad happens. Because if the bad was the norm, we would just shrug our shoulders and say "well tough luck, this is how the cookie crumbles" kind of thing but none of us does that.