I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.

Let us join hands and build a truly South African nation.

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

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

It never hurts to think too highly of a person; often they become ennobled and act better because of it.

A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest.

I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness.