Nelson Mandela

"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears."

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."

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

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

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

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

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

"A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred."

"I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom."

"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."

"The struggle is my life."

"I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way."

"It always seems impossible until it is done."

"There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through valley of the shadow of death again and again."

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

"What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others."

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies."

"Do not feel sad about your past. Do not be anxious for your future. Keep your mind in the present moment."

"Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead."

"There can be no greater issue than that of conservation, if we face reality that its success is a matter of life or death."

"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."

"Be brave enough to live creatively."

"In the final analysis, it is not what you do for your people that counts, but what you have taught them to do for themselves."

"I am fundamentally an optimist."

"The human has unlimited possibilities."

"Everybody can be great because everybody can serve."

"I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles."

"When people are pointed at in the finger of blame, there is always a counter-allegation."