Nelson Mandela

"I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them."

"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."

"Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening."

"Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening."

"I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE AND THE CAPTAIN OF MY DESTINY."

"I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."

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

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

"A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special."

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

"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."

"A winner is a dreamer who never gives up"

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

"Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future."

"When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw."

"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 am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope."

"I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days."

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

"I am the captain of my soul."