In the end, reconciliation is a spiritual process, which requires more than just a legal framework. It has to happen in the hearts and minds of people.

Those who can't imagine change reveal the deficits of their imaginations, not the difficulty of change.

We have introduced a rule of law into many sections of our public life.

Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.

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.

I was made, by the law, a criminal, not because of what I had done, but because of what I stood for, because of what I thought, because of my conscience... If I had my time over I would do the same again. So would any man who dares call himself a man.

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.