The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

And no, we don't know where it will lead. You just know there's something much bigger than any of us here. 

What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

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.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Schools and colleges are just buildings. The real test of education is: how much knowledge the teachders are able to transfer to their students.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?