When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

Small aim is a crime.

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even capable of forming such opinions.

As long as I have life, as long as blood flows through the arms of mine, I shall not leave the cause of freedom.

Why can't I just eat my waffle?

There is no retirement age for writers…

If you take others for granted, God may do the same thing with you.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.