I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

This is not the time to marry. My country is calling me. I have taken a vow to serve the country with my heart and soul.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.