Those who own much have much to fear.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I become a lawyer.

Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.

Beauty is a universal phenomenon. Even birds and animals find ways to beautify themselves to attract mates during their courting seasons. 

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. 

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.