सच्‍चा धर्म वही है जो स्‍वतंत्रता को परम मूल्‍य की तरह स्‍थापित करे।

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

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

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. 

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.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Wisdom is the landing pad of experience.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remove ourselves.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.