What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

If we did all the things we are capable of we would literally astound ourselves.

Our delight in any particular study art or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.

I'm going to Heaven, just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord remember me.'

I'll get involved in philanthropy.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize things that I said yesterday with nobody paying too much attention I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline, simulated fear postulates courage, simulated weakness postulates strength.

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

Tardiness often robs us opportunity and the dispatch of our forces.

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