Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty.

An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.

Teach the children that Africans are not one iota inferior to Europeans.

Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person.

I've found that South Africa has produced good leaders. These are people who realize that when there is danger, they should be in the forefront and when there is victory to be celebrated, they should be in the background, allowing their colleagues and the ordinary civilians - the man in the street - to rejoice and to celebrate that victory.