You cannot use an ace of spade to win a game of carrom board.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpse Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.  

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.

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

Indeed, we're strongest when the face of America isn't only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.

There is no substitute for merit.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.