There is no cloud above my head - there is not even a mist.

What made Nelson Mandela great was precisely what made him human. We saw in him what we seek in ourselves.

Even if you apply any kind of lotion and straighten your hair you will never be white.

You have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, that’s how democracy works.

Me? Well, I don't know, I must go to a dictionary and learn what a crook is. I've never been a crook.

People tend to try to find something to talk about Zuma. My surname is very nice and simple. Very simple, so they like pronouncing it all the time. So what's the problem?

The ancestors will turn their backs against you and you will have bad luck forever if you leave the ANC unhappy

Those who vote for the ANC will be blessed on earth and heaven

Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems.

Something has gone wrong with Ronnie... He wasn't like that before. I don't know what went wrong with him.

A shower would minimise the risk of contracting the disease.

To believe everything is to be an imbecile. To deny everything is to be a fool.

Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive, it can get sick.

True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.

The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility

You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.

The whole concert of animate nature arose entirely from annoying noises.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.

Girl, when he gives you kisses twain, use one, and let the other stay; And hoard it, for moons die, red fades, and you may need a kiss—some day.

Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.