“I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.”

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation.

There is no passion to be found playing small — in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.