S Nelson* Quotes

There are leaders who know that however furious the debate, there are good men and women in all population groups - amongst blacks, amongst whites, and amongst Afrikaans and English speaking people.

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

Separation from evil is the necessary first principle of communion with Him ... Separation from evil is His principle of unity

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

Freedom is control in your own life.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

We know what needs to be done - all that is missing is the will to do it.

It always seems impossible until its done.

You mustn't compromise your principles, but you mustn't humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated.

Our rich and varied cultural heritage has a profound power to help build our nation

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. Any nation that is progressive is led by people who have had the privilege of studying.

Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.

If our expectations, if our fondest prayers and dreams, are not realized then we should all bear in mind that the greatest glory of living lies not in never falling but in rising every time you fall.

My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.

One of the things we love about Po [Kung Fu Panda] is that he's vulnerable. He's someone that we can all identify with because he has those insecurities. He's an outsider feeling guy.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

Be assured that God does more in us than we for Him; and that what we do is only for Him in proportion as it is He Himself who works it in us.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

There is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

The importance of a high moral code, which is at the foundation of the Scout movement, cannot be stressed too highly.

If you start out looking at somebody, wondering whether he's good or bad, I think you're starting out in the wrong direction. I think we're all good and we're all bad.

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.

When I was younger I got bullied about the way I looked and I thought once I was older it would stop. I hated going to school, but didn't know who to talk to about it. It knocked my confidence a lot.

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

Faith is the antidote for fear.

Poverty is not natural; it is man-made

Nothing will do me any good unless I learn to control this body of mine.

I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.

The New World Order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all.

Each holy temple stands as a symbol of our membership in the Church, as a sign of our faith in life after death, and as a sacred step toward eternal glory for us and our families.

Almost anything makes me laugh, especially jokes at my own expense. And I will never, ever admit to being ticklish anywhere.

Do something bad a thousand times and it's no big deal. Everyone just goes, "Willie f - up again."

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.

Unless ideas are massaged into reality they evaporate.

If you've made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it.

It's an ongoing problem, an ongoing situation, life is. It's just life, and it never stops and it never will. You just be thankful for what you've got, and move on.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

Let us give publicity to HIV/AIDS and not hide it, because [that is] the only way to make it appear like a normal illness

You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.

The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything

Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together.