There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Even behind prison walls I can see the heavy clouds and the blue sky over the horizon

We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success.

Each of us is as intimately attached to the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous jacaranda trees of Pretoria and the mimosa trees of the bushveld - a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world.

The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.