Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. 

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith. 

Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone at a party, you can get an idea. But you've got to remember those inspirations.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people. 

I like a man who grins when he fights.

The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.

profane, not the shrine I have raised in the cleft of my heart.