A friend to all is a friend to none.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions. 

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. 

Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. 

Nay, do not pinni, tho' life be dark with trouble.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

There is nothing called a dead-end. The option of U-turn is always open.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.