It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

The children of any nation are its future. A country, a movement, a person that does not value its youth and children does not deserve its future.

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.

The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.

Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.

We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.

I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.

Write to your heart’s content and by all means, have fun with your creation. It’s your moment to do absolutely anything within those pages.

Healing is about making the choice to focus your thoughts on what feels energetically better at the level of your heart.

Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement.

One of the most radical things you can do, is to actually believe women when they tell you about their experiences.

The neighbors were more than neighbors [on Cuba]. They were like part of the family.

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.

People need what they think of as a poem to be read at their bar mitzvah, their wedding, a funeral, whatever. And people are looking for hope and inspiration. I understand that.

The greatest trick that the devil ever pulled Was convincing women that they looked Better in their makeup

Good heart is the best religion; its light is the most powerful light.

Love . . . [is] a lack of personal selfishness.