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

The wounds that cannot be seen are more painful than those that can be treated by a doctor.

Men come and men go, I have come and I will go when my time comes

I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness.

Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.

Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals of humanism which the Nobel Peace Prize encapsulates. Let the strivings of us all, prove Martin Luther King Jr. to have been correct, when he said that humanity can no longer be tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war.

Apart from life, a strong constitusion and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla