You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good.

South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.