Aram Mashile

“Like the gardener, a leader must take responsibility for what he cultivates; he must mind his work, try to repel enemies, preserve what can be preserved, and eliminate what cannot succeed.”
― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“I did not have an unlimited library to choose from on Robben Island. We had access to many unremembered mysteries and detective novels and all the works of Daphne du Maurier, but little more.”
― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.”
― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“Losing a sense of time is an easy way to lose one’s grip and even one’s sanity.”
― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk To Freedom