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.

Hope is a powerful weapon, and (one) no one power on earth can deprive you of.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly.

As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.

I was made, by the law, a criminal, not because of what I had done, but because of what I stood for, because of what I thought, because of my conscience... If I had my time over I would do the same again. So would any man who dares call himself a man.

Disabled children are equally entitled to an exciting and brilliant future.