Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. 

In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishmonent and the other by acts of love. Power based  love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.