1. When I walked out of the cell and walked towards the prison door leading to freedom, I knew that if I could not leave behind the pain and resentment, then I would still be in prison.

2. If you have the dream of building a better South Africa, there will be a road leading to your dream. Kindness and forgiveness are two of those avenues.

3. No one is born hating another person because of the color of their skin, their place of birth, or their religion. Hate needs to be learned, and since people can learn to hate, they can also be taught to love. Love enters the human heart more easily than hate.

4. I am determined to continue fighting for freedom until the moment I die.

5. There are many dark moments when humanitarian beliefs have been painfully tested. However, I will not and cannot bow to pessimism. Giving in to pessimism means failure and death.

6. Education is the most powerful weapon that can be used to change the world.

7. I long for an Africa with internal peace.

8. The greatest moment in life is not that you never fall, but that you always rise again after falling.

9. I have finished playing my role, and now I just want to live in obscurity. I want to go back to my hometown village and walk on the hillsides where I played in my childhood.

10. Don’t defend darkness just because you are used to it.

11. The greatest glory is not to never fall, but to always stand up after falling.

12. When I walked out of the cell and walked towards the prison door leading to freedom, I already knew that if I could not leave the pain and resentment behind, then I would actually be in prison.

13. People cannot do nothing, express nothing or react to justice, they cannot but protest against oppression, and they cannot but make efforts to build a good society and a good life.

14. Resentment is like a prison. Forgiving others is equal to sublimating oneself.

15. The meaning of life is not the simple fact that we have lived, but whether we have brought changes to other people's lives.

16. The most glorious thing in life is not the absence of failure, but the courage to stand up after every failure.

17. If you want to reconcile with your enemy, you must work with him.

18. Everything always seems impossible until it succeeds.

19. From now on, two important contents have been added to my life. The first is Gra?a, and the second is eating prawns in Mozambique.

20. A brave person is not a person who cannot feel fear, but a person who has conquered fear.

21. Creating success does not depend on money, but on having the freedom to create success.

22. A person’s success does not lie in never falling, but in how high he rises again after falling.

23. Even in the most ruthless days in prison, I would see a looming humanity in the prison guards. It might only be for a second, but it was enough to restore my confidence and persevere. .

24. Knowing the soul of a society depends on the way the society treats its children. Apart from this, there is no better way.

25. During those long and lonely years, my desire for freedom for my people became a desire for freedom for all people, white and black.

26. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, no vanity, and eagerness to help others - it is not difficult for everyone to cultivate these qualities - they are the foundation of a person's spiritual life.

27. If you communicate with a person in a language he understands, he will remember it in his mind; if you communicate with him in his own language, he will remember it in his heart.

28. If you are bright, the world will not be dark. If you have hope, the world will not be completely hopeless. If you don't give in, what can the world do to you?

29. I fulfilled my responsibilities to my people and to South Africa.

I have no doubt that posterity will restore my honor, and I say equally that the criminals who should stand before this court are members of the Communist Party.

30. Our biggest fear is not that we are incapable, our biggest fear is that we have unparalleled power. It is our light that shocks us, not our darkness.

31. We can be as humble as dust, but we cannot be twisted like maggots.

32. What is important in life is not just the pure fact that we have lived, but the changes we have made in other people's lives. This determines the meaning of life.

33. For the sake of peace, brave people are not afraid of tolerance.

34. Only when blacks and whites become brothers can South Africa prosper and develop.

35. In this Iraq war, we saw every move of the United States and Bush. Who is the threat to the world?