“Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.”

— Nelson Mandela · Success quote

Anti-apartheid leader, President of South Africa · 1918 – 2013

South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who spent 27 years in prison and became the country's first Black president in 1994.

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I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say.

I never lose. I either win or learn.

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.