It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.

Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.

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

Sports have the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sports can create hope, where there was once only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination. Sports is the game of lovers.

If you look at those matters, you will come to the conclusion that the attitude of the United States of America is a threat to world peace.

There are people here [in South Africa] who, whatever the debate is on a particular issue, their dominating idea is that at the end of the debate we must emerge stronger than we were before and closer to one another.

Home is home even for those who aspire to serve wider interests and who have established their home of choice in distant regions.