Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

I came across few whites as a boy at Qunu. The local magistrate, of course, was white, as was the nearest shopkeeper. Occasionally, white travelers or policemen passed through our area. These whites appeared as grand as gods to me, and I was aware that they were to be treated with a mixture of fear and respect.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. 

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. 

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Unfortunately, both love as well as justice, are blind.