Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details. 

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

It is only when we grow old that we learn why we should have been more respectful towards our elders.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.