To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart. 

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enrich your soul.

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.