Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.

No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why this particular name I have no idea.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

If you are negotiating you must do so in a spirit of reconciliation, not from the point of view of issuing ultimatums.

If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important - and you do that by being genuine and humble.

It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.

Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial; and when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another.