Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.

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

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

Exercise is the key not only to physical health but to peace of mind.

No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education.

I discovered even before I went to jail that apartheid was not run by people who were monolithic in their approach. Some of them didn't even believe in apartheid.

We cannot blame other people for our troubles. We are not victims of the influx of foreign people into South Africa. We must remember that it was mainly due to the aggressive and hostile policies of the apartheid regime that the economic development of our neighbours was undermined.