You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.  

However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.

Change in all things is sweet.

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 last moment is past; this moment is present; and, the next moment will be future. The past, present, and future change with every tick of the clock.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. 

There is no way you can pay back for kindness because it comes for free.

Rulers are remembered for their commitment to masses more than anything else.

I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed there for a couple of weeks. I was taken back to Pretoria when I was charged in the Rivonia trial, when I was then sent to Robben Island for life.

Get mad, then get over it.