May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

There is nothing to popularize a person. Only humility, which is the ability to remain in the background and to put others in the front light.

The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.

Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action.

We cannot blame other people for our troubles. We are not victims of the influx of foreign people into South Africa. We must remember that it was mainly due to the aggressive and hostile policies of the apartheid regime that the economic development of our neighbours was undermined.

A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.