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.

We don't have to be victims of our past, that we can let go of our bitterness, and that all of us can achieve greatness.

You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.

One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing this reality, future generations are in danger of losing their history.

Great anger and violence can never build a nation.

If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the apartheid government.

When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.