Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

There is no other force destroying us like ignorance.

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.

My commitment is not to consistency but to the Truth.

Fathers can find great inspiration in faith.

Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.

I am loved by thousands, but I feel like the loneliest man in the world.

Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.

The ANC is more important than the Constitution.

Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it's fun to be able to deliver it.

Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.