Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. 

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.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. 

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.

Small aim is a crime.

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. 

Hope is a waking dream.

The girl is poised against a changing world, and yet represents a sense of permanence in a world that is mutable. She has some simple secrets and her life is just a source of missed times.

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.