End Quotes

The stuff that I write doesn’t work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.

All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.

The biggest fight in my life is not in boxing. The biggest fight in my life is how to end poverty in my country.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?

Keep your morale high, in spite of setbacks. At the end you are bound to succeed.

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?

But at the end we didn’t say anything at all, maybe we are going to be all right.

You had to use it to fight apartheid & some of us resisted that in the end, you recognize that you are facing a government that has no scruples about using culture & art to oppress you.

Somewhere out there the world must have an end.