Other people have qualities that may be better than your own. Let them express them.

We slaughter one another in our words and attitudes. We slaughter one another in the stereotypes and mistrust that linger in our heads, and the words of hate we spew from our lips.

You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.

Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person.

Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people. That is why it is so important that the FIFA World Cup will, for the first time ever, be hosted on the African continent in 2010. We feel privileged and humbled that South Africa has been given this singular honour of being the African host country.

I have always endeavoured to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion.

Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I or the ANC ever supported. It is a primitive way of contending with an opponent