May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.

I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.

South Africans have no concept of time and this is also why we can't solve poverty and social problems… It's now 10 years since the fall of the Apartheid government and we cannot blame Apartheid for being tardy.

Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.

Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals of humanism which the Nobel Peace Prize encapsulates. Let the strivings of us all, prove Martin Luther King Jr. to have been correct, when he said that humanity can no longer be tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war.

Even behind prison walls I can see the heavy clouds and the blue sky over the horizon