Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

If you are on a healthy diet, you may not need tonics and vitamins.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future. 

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. 

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. 

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.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.