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.

You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.

 If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own. 

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one. 

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Intelligence is the application of knowledge.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. 

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.