"I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances."

"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb."

"I have always regarded myself as a man of the people, and I have always tried to live up to that ideal."

"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."

"If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the apartheid government."