It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organizations - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

Information is not knowledge. 

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

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

Friendship is evolving into a relationship of convenience.

 Don't find fault, find a remedy. 

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.