Something has gone wrong with Ronnie... He wasn't like that before. I don't know what went wrong with him.

What made Nelson Mandela great was precisely what made him human. We saw in him what we seek in ourselves.

Even if you apply any kind of lotion and straighten your hair you will never be white.

You have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, that’s how democracy works.

Me? Well, I don't know, I must go to a dictionary and learn what a crook is. I've never been a crook.

People tend to try to find something to talk about Zuma. My surname is very nice and simple. Very simple, so they like pronouncing it all the time. So what's the problem?

The ancestors will turn their backs against you and you will have bad luck forever if you leave the ANC unhappy

Those who vote for the ANC will be blessed on earth and heaven

Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems.

A shower would minimise the risk of contracting the disease.

When I joined the ANC, I never thought I would be anything. In no way, did I say, 'One day I could be the president. I think I am good material for the presidency.' Not at all.

Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk, wrote that nothing can be expressed about solitude "that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

Tears are not thorns.

It's usually our opposites who complement us best, because they're the only ones who can balance us out.

It's hard because people always say, 'Follow your dreams, ' but it's not a perfect world, and things don't always work out. But you've just got to work hard, and you can't take things for granted.

If you're not really having a good time, it's not worth it.

Even if you don't see the results of your planting, just keep Planting your Love. Your Patience. Your Perseverance. Your Faith.

I know the struggles that are ahead in my life and I know the struggles that are ahead in your life. It's not going to be pretty.

Jersey girls have this inner glow that makes them more beautiful than any other girls.

I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage.