life loses half its interest if there is no struggle, if there are no risk to be taken.

I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.  

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.