We can neither heal nor build if, on the one hand the rich in our society see the poor as hordes of irritants or if on the other hand the poor sit back, expecting charity. All of us must take responsibility for the upliftment of our conditions, prepared to give our best to the benefit of all

There is nothing to popularize a person. Only humility, which is the ability to remain in the background and to put others in the front light.

The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.

The time has come to accept in our hearts and minds that with freedom comes responsibility.

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

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up

Those South Africans who berate me for being loyal to our friends, literally they can go and throw themselves into a pool. I am not going to betray the trust of those who helped us.