Richard Stengel Quotes.

1. "With the dozens of prisoners I spoke to and got to know, one of the only things, perhaps the only thing they missed about prison was that intimate, daily, powerful connection to prisoner number 46664. I missed it too. But I knew also, as those men knew, that it could not be restored, that it was born of a certain time and place."
- Quote by Richard Stengel

2. "With the dozens of prisoners I spoke to and got to know, one of the only things, perhaps the only thing they missed about prison was that intimate, daily, powerful connection to prisoner number 46664. I missed it too. But I knew also,as those men knew, that it could not be restored, that it was born of a certain time and place."
- Quote by Richard Stengel

3. "By maturity, he meant that he learned to control those more youthful impulses, not that he was no longer stung or hurt or angry. It is not that you always know what to do or how to do it, it is that you are able to tamp down the emotions and anxieties that get in the way of seeing the world as it is. You can see through them, and that will see you through."
- Richard Stengel, Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life

4. "And that is how he would describe courage: pretending to be brave. Fearlessness is stupidity. Courage is not letting the fear defeat you."
- Richard Stengel, Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life

5. "Conditions plus principles determine strategy."
- Richard Stengel, Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life

6. "The Renaissance idea of individualism never penetrated Africa like it did Europe and America. The African model of leadership is better expressed as ubuntu, the idea that people are empowered by other people, that we become our best selves through unselfish interaction with others."
- Richard Stengel, Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life

7. "Just as pretending to be brave can become real courage, we may find that outfitting ourselves as the person we want to be brings us closer to becoming that person."
- Richard Stengel, Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life

8. "Yes, emotions may be authentic, and authenticity is a modern virtue, but one can be authentic without being unnecessarily revealing."
- Richard Stengel, Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life

9. "Courage is not the absence of fear, he taught me. It’s learning to overcome it."
- Richard Stengel, Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life

10. "Even after emerging from prison and becoming South Africa’s first democratically elected president, he continued"
- Richard Stengel, Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life