I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. – Nelson Mandela
I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism. – Nelson Mandela
Does anybody really think that they didnt get what they had because they didnt have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment? – Nelson Mandela
Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself. – Nelson Mandela
Presently a light breeze sprang up, rolling the fog before it, and then dying away, leaving the lighthouse enshrouded…. The two great fog-bells of the lighthouse were therefore set agoing, and they rang out their slow deep-toned peal all that day and all that night… – R.M. Ballantyne, The Lighthouse: Being the Story of a Great Fight Between Man an