Nelson Mandela

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

It always seems impossible until its done.

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

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

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

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.

It’s not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one.

I am the captain of my soul.

There isn’t a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness…

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people

Ah! Sir, a boy’s being flogged is not so severe as a man’s having the hiss of the world against him.