Just because someone forgives your wrongs does not mean their hurt is healed forever.

It is only so long as a man can retain the child in him that life can be free from those dark shadows which leave inevitable furrows on a man’s forehead.

In the statement accompanying the text of Lahore Conspiracy Case Ordinance, the Viceroy had stated that the accused in this case were trying to bring both law and justice into contempt. The situation afforded us an opportunity to show to the public whether we were trying to bring law into contempt or whether others were doing so.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed there for a couple of weeks. I was taken back to Pretoria when I was charged in the Rivonia trial, when I was then sent to Robben Island for life.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

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.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.