From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort.

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism in a politics of hope?

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

The look of city is the reflection of the outlook of its denizens.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. 

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

If you are part of a false propaganda machinery, you are fighting for the wrong cause.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.