An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy

Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action.

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

Sport has the power to change the world... Sport can awaken hope where there was previously only despair.

The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.

If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important - and you do that by being genuine and humble.