It generally appears outlandish until its carried out.

I shall stick to our vow: never, never under any circumstances, to say anything unbecoming of the other...The trouble, of course, is that most successful men are prone to some form of vanity. There comes a stage in their lives when they consider it permissible to be egotistic and to brag to the public at large about their unique achievements.

I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.

Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.

The histories of our two peoples, Palestinian and South African, correspond in such painful and poignant ways, that I intensely feel myself being at home amongst compatriots

The Liberty Bell is "a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world."

If we want any significant development, we must co-opt civil society.