Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely non violence in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

By common endeavour we can raise the country to a new greatness, while a lack of unity will expose us to fresh calamities.

It is difficult to violently suppressed people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. 

The best way to get a bad law repeal is to enforce it strictly.