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

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

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

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

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.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

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

The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE AND THE CAPTAIN OF MY DESTINY.

Quitting is leading too.

Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation

I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.

It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires

We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Know your enemy — and learn about his favorite sport.

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.