Each of us is as intimately attached to the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous jacaranda trees of Pretoria and the mimosa trees of the bushveld - a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world.

To truly lead one's people, one must also truly know them.

Freedom alone is not enough without light to read at night, without time or access to water to irrigate your farm, without the ability to catch fish to feed your family.

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

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

Blaming things on the past does not make them better.

The time is always right to do right