Nelson Mandela

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

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

I am the captain of my soul.

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

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

It always seems impossible until its done.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man’s knowledge, because I have so much of it.

If you want the time to pass quickly, just give your note for 90 days.

I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?

To inherit property is not to be born – it is to be still-born, rather.

They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

In the scenery of spring, nothing is better, nothing worse; the flowering branches are; some long, some short.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.