I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Hating clouds the mind. It gets in the way of strategy. Leaders cannot afford to hate — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
If our expectations, if our fondest prayers and dreams, are not realized then we should all bear in mind that the greatest… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Exercise is the key not only to physical health but to peace of mind. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Our efforts to counter hatred, intolerance, and indifference must continue simultaneously at individual and structural levels. We must try to influence for… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
In some ways, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life. A leader must also tend his… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The time has come to accept in our hearts and minds that with freedom comes responsibility. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
In the end, reconciliation is a spiritual process, which requires more than just a legal framework. It has to happen in the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
If you don't allow people to contribute, to offer their point of view, or to criticize what has been put before them, then they… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Some of the mission groups that have been responsible for our education have not been part of the government. In fact, they acted contrary… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
What he means by this is that instead of saying you'll "try", you need to "do". And as we let our light shine, we… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful:… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Prison is a still point in a turning world, and it is very easy to remain in the same place in jail while the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
