When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it..

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

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

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….

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..

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

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

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 ….

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

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

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

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 ….

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

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….

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,….

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….

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

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….

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….

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, ….

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….