I watched, along with all of you, as the tens of thousands of our people stood patiently in long queues for many hours. Some sleeping on the open ground overnight waiting to cast this momentous vote.

You negotiate in bad faith if you do not forgive your adversary.

The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

I was not born with a hunger to be free, I was born free.

It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.