Nelson Mandela — "I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying."

"I am not an expert on anything."

"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for lov…"

"Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end."

"I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances."

"There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself over to despair. That way lays defeat and death."