"We should take heart from our own..." - Quote by Nelson Mandela

“Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.”

“I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.”

“Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.”

“When a leader is upbeat in the face of discouraging circumstances, others admire that quality and want to be like her.”

“I get lots of ideas when the lights go out at night and it gets very quiet. Sometimes they come when I first lie down to sleep; other times I wake up with an idea racing through my mind. But regardless of when an idea comes, I have made it a habit to get out of bed and write the idea down before it disappears into my dreams. You should do the same.”

“I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.”

“And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?”

“But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?”

“There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.”