An organisation can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no real progress

It's in your hands to make the world a better place.

Let us join hands and build a truly South African nation.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strenthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

On the The AIDS Epidemic: This is a war. It has killed more people than has been the case in all previous wars and in all previous natural disasters ... We must not continue to be debating, to be arguing, when people are dying.

We should never forget those on whose shoulders we stand and those who paid the supreme price for freedom.

Blaming things on the past does not make them better.