I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted. 

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.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Sometimes we buy things to impress people we may not even know.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and more. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

No force on earth can dislodge democracy and rule forever.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.