We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime).

Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.

It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. 

The best and noblest gifts of humanity cannot be the monopoly of a particular race or country; its scope may not be limited nor may it be regarded as the miser's hoard buried underground.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.