Leaders will have to give clear and decisive leadership towards a world of tolerance and respect for difference, and an uncompromising commitment to peaceful solutions of conflicts and disputes.

The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.

You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with and a sense of humour and a complete relaxation, even when you're discussing serious things, does help to mobilise friends around you. And I love that.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly.

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.

In some ways, it is easier to be a dissident, for then one is without responsibility.