Nelson Mandela

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

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

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

The greatest glory in living lies in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

I am the captain of my soul.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace.

Some people are stuck on who I was that who I am never even had a chance.

Suspicion is most often useless pain.

The Public is merely a multiplied “me”.

Letting go is not giving up.

The Country is both the Philosopher’s Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

Don’t be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don’t bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. Don’t waste yourself in rejection, or bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

If thou art clean and warm, it is sufficient; for more doth but rob the Poor, and please the Wanton.

They that deny a God destroy man’s nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.