I shall stick to our vow: never, never under any circumstances, to say anything unbecoming of the other...The trouble, of course, is that most successful men are prone to some form of vanity. There comes a stage in their lives when they consider it permissible to be egotistic and to brag to the public at large about their unique achievements.

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

We can't win a war, but we can win an election.

A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.

When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.

The time will come when our nation will honour the memory of all the sons, the daughters, the mothers, the fathers, the youth and the children who, by their thoughts and deeds, gave us the right to assert with pride that we are South Africans, that we are Africans, and that we are citizens of the world.