I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

I never lose. Either I win or learn.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

I must write now and quickly, before I begin to prefer the perfect version that lives in my head.

It’ll always be mine, but it’ll always be your heart.

I wish you did return my regard, " he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

... why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of the species?

Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want

Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.

Your new CD is a weed plate, nothin' but love songs, 100% pure garbage, just something to break up buds on.

As we begin to face up to the holiness of God, our lives resound with that very same anthem, here and now upon the earth.

A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.