Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.

Individuals get caught up in the policy of their country. In prison, for instance, a warden or officer is not promoted if he doesn't follow the policy of the government - though he himself does not believe in that policy.

There are people here [in South Africa] who, whatever the debate is on a particular issue, their dominating idea is that at the end of the debate we must emerge stronger than we were before and closer to one another.

Millions of people in the world's poorest countries remain enslaved by the chains of poverty. It is time to set them free.

Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty.

In the 21st Century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right.