In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education... But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualities which are within easy reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life.
Nelson MandelaI always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.
Nelson MandelaPolitical division, based on color, is entirely artificial; and when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another.
Nelson MandelaThe power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.
Nelson Mandela