When you are young and strong...you can stay alive on your hatred.

People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite... Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.

Resentment is a method of self-harm.

You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.

Quotes on the Long Walk to Freedom

Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that a son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become president of a great nation.

Having a grievance or resentment is like drinking poison and thinking it will kill your enemy.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

A leader . . . is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.