Treat each case as an individual case, and give every man an opportunity to earn just as much money as he is capable of earning. 

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temple; my philosophy is kindness.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. 

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organizations - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

The things that we use today are products of our cultural heritage and economic development.

I think government can't do much.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation of individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.