Nelson Mandela

It always seems impossible until it is done.

It always seems impossible until its done.

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Appearances matter – and remember to smile.

Tread softly, Breathe peacefully, Laugh hysterically.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.

Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles… but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief -a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.