It is better to deal with wrongs immediately than to postpone your action till it snowballs into something big.

When you meet intellectuals wanting in common sense, your frustration knows no bounds.

Hope is a waking dream.

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enrich your soul.

It can be simplified easily, if an individual works his heel peak for the freedom of the nation, he might get punished by the Englishmen, but if a group of individuals form a community to fight for freedom, they get success. 

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Don’t get carried away by others’ opinions, they may be mischievous or motivated.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.