Nelson Mandela

It always seems impossible until it is done.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

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

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

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

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

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.

That man is idle who can do something better.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

After a few months’ acquaintance with European coffee, one’s mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with its clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.

Knowledge is power.

“I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. I will simply breathe and it will be okay because I don’t quit.”- Shayne Mcclendon

I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

It is at our mother’s knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them.

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.