I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

Let me announce, with all the strength at my command, that I am not a terrorist and I never was, expect perhaps in the beginning of my revolutionary career. And I am convinced that we cannot gain anything through those methods.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible. 

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We've done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it's much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it's not only easier to use but more efficient.

Politicians just do an aerial survey of disasters. Genuine leaders carry out relief measures on ground zero.

Those who oppose change are addicted to the luxury of their comfort zone.