Nelson Mandela

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

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

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

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

Nothing is black or white.

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

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last.

When a man is just and firm in his purpose, the citizens burning to approve a wrong or the frowning looks of a tyrant. Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind. Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic, nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove: Should the heavens crack and tumble down, as the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

I constantly ask myself if what I’m doing is for me or somebody else. It’s tripping me out!

Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

He hates chess. He says it is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something clever when they are only wasting their time.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

It’s powerful to have strong men but what does that strength mean?

The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it.