If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive.
When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
No matter what the past has dealt you, don't let it destroy your future.
I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company.
If I'm not in love, if I'm not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.
If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they've done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.
There is an absence of democratic accountability and control in every sphere of government and the state. To address this debilitating legacy requires determined action and a deep commitment to transforming our society from a crisis ridden present into something all South Africans can be truly proud of.
Disabled children are equally entitled to an exciting and brilliant future.
I like a leader who can, while pointing out a mistake, bring up the good things the other person has done. If you do that, then the person sees that you have a complete picture of him. There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly.
When a rules man gives you a ruling, that’s it. Amen.
If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along. Anything that breaks it at any point stops that growth.
We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.
A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness.
I've actually not read any books on time management.
You mustn't compromise your principles, but you mustn't humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated.
We have laid the foundation for a better life. Things that were unimaginable a few years ago have become everyday reality. I belong to the generation of leaders for whom the achievement of democracy was the defining challenge.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended.
As we judge others so are we judged by others. The suspicious will always be tormented by suspicion.
I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.
I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.
We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us.
There is nothing to popularize a person. Only humility, which is the ability to remain in the background and to put others in the front light.
What freedom am I being offered while the organization of the people remains banned? Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.
We can't win a war, but we can win an election.
No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education.
Humans need to be a multiplanet species.
In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.
Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom.
I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.
How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and suffering right through the years, should now operate here to give me a fair and open trial?....consider myself neither morally nor legally obliged to obey laws made by a Parliament in which I am not represented. That the will of the people is the basis of the authority of government, is a principle universally acknowledged as sacred throughout the civilized world.
Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.
Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
Hope is a powerful weapon, and (one) no one power on earth can deprive you of.
Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.
I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.
The march to freedom is irreversible.
Fools multiply when wise men are silent.
Our fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure.
I have always endeavoured to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion.
The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, There's a star. The first time I saw Jack Nicklaus, I said, Superstar. I feel the same way about Tiger Woods.
There's nothing - I've bought everything I want. I don't like yachts or anything; you know, I'm not a yacht person, and I've got pretty much the nicest plane I'd want to have.
Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person.
Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time
We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image.
I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all.
It's a fixer-upper of a planet but we could make it work.
The very right to be human is denied every day to hundreds of millions of people as a result of poverty, the unavailability of basic necessities such as food, jobs, water and shelter, education, health care and a healthy environment.
We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
And we need things in life that are exciting and inspiring. It can't just be about solving some awful problem. There have to be reasons to get up in the morning.
South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting.
I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.
The USA is a threat to world peace. Who are they to pretend that they are the policemen of the world, the ones that should decide for the people of Iraq what should be done with their government and their leadership. All that [the USA] wants is Iraqi oil. [Blair is] simply the foreign minister of the United States. He is no longer prime minister of Britain.
If you don’t intend having a compromise, you don’t negotiate at all.
It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism
The majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass action in order to build peace and security. The mass campaign of defiance and other actions of our organization and people can only culminate in the establishment of democracy.
When I was a child, there's one thing I said: 'I never want to be alone.' That's what I would say. I don't want to be alone.
There's a real opportunity to have a vertical takeoff and landing electric supersonic jet.
