Some of the greatest pains are often caused by people who are dear to us.

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

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.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely on my imagination.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and the causes and prevention of disease.

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.