That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Faith is not avail in absence of strength. Faith and strength, both are essential to accomplish any great work.

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

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.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility. 

The new has come and now the old retires. And so the past becomes a mountain cell. Where lone apart old hermit memories dwell.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.