When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Be a life long student, read as many books as possible.

The time comes in the life of any nation when there remains only two choices - submit or fight.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

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

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.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.