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

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."

Mandela: "I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people."

Mandela: "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."

Mandela: "I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself."

Mandela: "It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea."

Mandela: "A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed."

Mandela: "As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest."

Mandela: "It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership."

Mandela: "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."

Mandela: "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."

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

Mandela: "To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."

Mandela: "Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom."

Mandela: "Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all."

Mandela: "There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires."

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

Mandela: "If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness."