Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

If you would know strength and patience welcome the company of trees.

Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.

Early in the morning I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time we were so naive. I wanted to charm her so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital.

Let us face it: in the world today money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.

My mom was a source of strength.She showed me by example that women regardless of how difficult life may get can do it all.