South Africa is the most beautiful place on earth. Admittedly, I am biased but when you combine the natural beauty... and the fact that the region is a haven for Africa's most splendid wildlife... Then I think that we have been blessed with a truly wonderful land.

Where people of goodwill get together and transcend their differences for the common good, peaceful and just solutions can be found even for those problems which seem most intractable.

It never hurts to think too highly of a person; often they become ennobled and act better because of it.

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

Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

There is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires