Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.

Thinking is one of the most important weapons in dealing with problems

You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.

I've found that South Africa has produced good leaders. These are people who realize that when there is danger, they should be in the forefront and when there is victory to be celebrated, they should be in the background, allowing their colleagues and the ordinary civilians - the man in the street - to rejoice and to celebrate that victory.

I am not the only one who did not want revenge. Almost all my colleagues in prison did not want revenge, because there is no time to do anything else except to try and save your people.