There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love..

It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, ….

Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich..

I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi. For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to sa….

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly ….

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again..

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making ….

It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the ener….

When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there no….

The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and man's destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives….

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving..

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for hi….

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?.

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man..

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right..

I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society..

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives,….

It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love..

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to s….

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power..

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown….