Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.

The Liberty Bell is "a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world."

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away.

Israel should withdraw from all the areas which it won from the Arabs in 1967, and in particular Israel should withdraw completely from the Golan Heights, from south Lebanon and from the West Bank.

Take it upon yourself where you live to make people around you joyful and full of hope.