Where people of goodwill get together and transcend their differences for the common good, peaceful and just solutions can be found even for those problems which seem most intractable.

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.

I discovered even before I went to jail that apartheid was not run by people who were monolithic in their approach. Some of them didn't even believe in apartheid.

Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.

One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.

We have introduced a democratic constitution, which put suvery South African on an equal basis.

Now we are in the second term of the government of a united nation and the government has done very well. One thing they have done, one thing people could not be blind to, was the achievement this government has made in giving human beings dignity, which they did not enjoy before. They now have dignity.