You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news. 

Age considers; youth ventures.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to recover impotence.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.

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.

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging. 

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

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.