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.

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

Appearances matter – and remember to smile.

Difficulties break some men but make others.

I am the captain of my soul.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Heaven is the work of the best and kindest men and women. Hell is the work of prigs, pedants and professional truth-tellers. The world is an attempt to make the best of Heaven and Hell.

Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

As you get older, you realize that no one has all the answers. It turns out that life is an exercise in living with the certainty of uncertainty. – Jason Kilar

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

No matter how hard the past is, we can always begin again.

A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.

The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only – not from its privileged classes.

They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

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