How you respond to a given situation makes all the difference between success and failure.

Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. IS considered the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

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.

We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime).

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Our conscience is like an alarm bell.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. 

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

If you are overconfident, you may learn things the hard way.

To my mind the old masters are not at; their value is in their scarcity.

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.