Nelson Mandela

It is most unusual to return to a place that has changed in ways you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

It is never my custom to use words lightly. If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die.

Nelson Mandela

It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.

Nelson Mandela

It is so easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build.

Nelson Mandela

It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor.

Nelson Mandela

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

Nelson Mandela

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

Nelson Mandela

It never hurts to think too highly of a person; often they become ennobled and act better because of it.

Nelson Mandela

It’s not our weaknesses that frighten us. It’s our strengths.

Nelson Mandela

Learn to know yourself, to search realistically and regularly the process of your own mind and feelings.

Nelson Mandela