Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

Past, present, and future are momentary in nature!

Your goodness is impediment in your way, so let your eyes be red with anger, and try to fight injustice with a firm hand.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting A go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Everybody likes a compliment.

All cartoon characters and cables must be exaggerated, caricature. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. 

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.