For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up

If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important - and you do that by being genuine and humble.

Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where those who consider themselves superior define and treat the rest as subhuman, denies the humanity even of those who elevate themselves to the status of gods.

What we did was to try and exploit that spirit [the idea of giving], which was there even before I approached individual South Africans [to give to the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund]. I think we must start from that angle.

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life.