To test a man’s character, give him power. Once people have power they will always reveal themselves.

It’s not important in life what happens to you, but how you handle what happens to you.

Another of Madiba’s great lessons: you can have a vast difference of opinion with someone but that never justifies disrespect.

Be kind to every person you meet because we don’t know their battles.

Loyalty and dedication can’t be bought or paid to go away.

The way you approach a person will determine how that person treats you... 'People will forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Another of Madiba's great lessons: you can have a vast difference of opinion with someone but that never justifies disrespect.

It was irrelevant how much time you spent with Madiba. Your relationship with him depended on how you felt about him in you heart.

Bitterness will make you sick. During [Madiba's] imprisonment they were forced to work in the limestone quarry. Chipping away for no reason. Bitterness is the same. You reduce your own character with such a mindless exercise of cultivating bitterness.

[Mandela] subsequently used words that never left me: 'Because you hold a particular position, doesn't mean that you are more important that anyone else. Your time is not more valuable that anybody else's time. If you are late you show that you have no respect for another person's time and therefore no respect for other people because you consider yourself to be more important.