In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.

I start where the last man left off.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. 

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. 

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.