India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Your future can be secured by what you are sowing today—not what you are harvesting today.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

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.

If you know it is going to be a tight-rope walk, you might as well carry a bamboo to balance yourself.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Nature does nothing in vain.

Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.