We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.

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

There is nothing more dangerous than a humiliated man.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

I discovered even before I went to jail that apartheid was not run by people who were monolithic in their approach. Some of them didn't even believe in apartheid.

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.