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

It enables me to go to bed with an enriching feeling in my soul and the belief that I am changing myself.

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

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I or the ANC ever supported. It is a primitive way of contending with an opponent

We don't have to be victims of our past, that we can let go of our bitterness, and that all of us can achieve greatness.

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.