A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

I think government can't do much.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Computers make me totally blank out.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

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.