I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

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.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.

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.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. 

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.