There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.

I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918)

Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.

Lead from the front — but don t leave your base behind.

Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

It is music and dancing that make me at peace with the world.

I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.

Only free men can negotiate,prisoners can't enter in contracts

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Money wont create success, the fredom to make it will

Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly.

Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world

There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and the neccessary skill.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

We forgive but not forgotten

Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place.

For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.