Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. 

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. 

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Age considers; youth ventures.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

By common endeavour we can raise the country to a new greatness, while a lack of unity will expose us to fresh calamities.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

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.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately. 

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.