Appearances matter — and remember to smile.

Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.

The first election in which all South Africans took part was in April, 1994. There were long queues [lines] of employers and employees, black and white. In the sense of Africans, Coloreds and Indians - when I talk about blacks, I mean those three. Blacks and whites mingled to vote without any hitches. Many people would have expected a great deal of tension, clashes and violence, but it did not occur.

Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.

We don't have to be victims of our past, that we can let go of our bitterness, and that all of us can achieve greatness.

I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days.

I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.