More quotes by Nelson Mandela

"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."
"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."
"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation"
"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."