Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. 

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. 

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Heaven and earth represent the carrot and stick theory of management in religious philosophy.

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.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. 

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.