“Knowing English is important, but for us Venezuelans I think it would also be important to know Portuguese. For that reason, we should evaluate the possibility of it being taught in our schools.”

Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), p. 5

He understood that ideas cannot be contained by prison walls, or extinguished by a sniper’s bullet. He turned his trial into an indictment of apartheid because of his eloquence and his passion, but also because of his training as an advocate. He used decades in prison to sharpen his arguments, but also to spread his thirst for knowledge to others in the movement. And he learned the language and the customs of his oppressor so that one day he might better convey to them how their own freedom depend upon his.
2013, Eulogy of Nelson Mandela (December 2013)

Hymn

Letter his White's aunt, 6 January 1800.
Letters

Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

Nobel Peace Prize Lecture (December 10, 2014)

The Last Lecture (2007)