Hope is a powerful weapon, and (one) no one power on earth can deprive you of.

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

The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible.

Justice and I became friends, though we were opposites in many ways - he was extroverted, I was introverted; he was lighthearted, I was serious.

I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I am not going to protest.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

We cannot blame other people for our troubles. We are not victims of the influx of foreign people into South Africa. We must remember that it was mainly due to the aggressive and hostile policies of the apartheid regime that the economic development of our neighbours was undermined.