10 Best Nelson Mandela Quotes & Sayings

Everything that I have ever hoped to accomplish, she has done and done better than anyone I have ever seen. — Anne Hathaway

I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and 'Asia Falling'; 'Free to Choose' and 'Free to Lose'; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' and 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.' Visitors love the collection. — Mark Skousen

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. — Octavio Paz

We do not want freedom without bread, nor do we want bread without freedom. Investiture, Clark University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, July 10, 1993 — Nelson Mandela

Babbling may be a weakness, but to my thinking mystery is a vice. — Anthony Trollope

Time hides no treasures; we want not its then, but its now. — Henry David Thoreau

Standing behind" a politician just because you voted for him or her does not make you patriotic, or loyal, or even smart - what it does make you is derelict in your responsibilities as a citizen. — Joseph Befumo

South Africans have no concept of time and this is also why we can't solve poverty and social problems ... It's now 10 years since the fall of the Apartheid government and we cannot blame Apartheid for being tardy. — Nelson Mandela

Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt. — John Osborne

The Book of Mormon is an inexhaustible encyclopedia of knowledge. — Hugh Nibley