Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice can be perpetuated by the capacity to kill, or that disputes are necessarily best resolved by resort to violent means.

It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. For historians, academics, writers and journalists to reflect great lives according to their own subjective canon.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

When I closed THE GRAPES OF WRATH, I was a different man. It enriched my powers of thinking and discipline, and my relationships. I left prison more informed than when I went in. And the more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are.

Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.

Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.