As we judge others so are we judged by others. The suspicious will always be tormented by suspicion.

The time will come when our nation will honour the memory of all the sons, the daughters, the mothers, the fathers, the youth and the children who, by their thoughts and deeds, gave us the right to assert with pride that we are South Africans, that we are Africans, and that we are citizens of the world.

You mustn't compromise your principles, but you mustn't humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated.

Lead from the front - but don t leave your base behind.

Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.

The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.

South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting.