We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organizations - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whatever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. 

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. 

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.