Good men and women can be mobilized to ensure that South Africa is united and that the spirit of reconciliation is strengthened and that progress in this country takes place as fast as it can.

You mustn't compromise your principles, but you mustn't humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated.

If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the apartheid government.

We must also know that even before liberation in 1994 there [in South Africa] were people with resources who tried to share with those who were deprived.

Our experience has taught us that with goodwill a negotiated solution can be found for even the most profound problems.

Our society needs to re-establish a culture of caring.

I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.