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“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.”

“If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”

“Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”

“People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.”

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”

“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”

“Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.”