Quotes of the Day

Former South Africa's President Nelson Mandela poses with a copy of the British edition of his newly released book <span style='font-style: italic'>Conversations with Myself</span> in this handout photograph released by the Nelson Mandela Foundation on October 11, 2010
Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010

Open quoteMy beloved wife was furious ... she reminded me: 'I, not you, brought up these children whom you now prefer to me.' Close quote

  • NELSON MANDELA,
  • Nobel Peace Prize winner and activist, in a 1987 letter to a friend on his wife Winnie's response to his comment that the children had grown up well; the letter appears in his new book Conversations with Myself
Photo: DEBBIE YAZBEK / AFP / Getty Images | Source: SCMP