Invictus

For a guy to have been in jail for 27 years, it was neat to watch the movie depict how much of a 'people-person' Mandela really was. I mean, I know so many people have fallen in love with him; but do they really understand what he has been through, and more importantly what he has done, and I don't mean in the big picture, but the smaller one.
I highly recommend this movie to everyone!
Ooooh, I also had such a thrill watching the rugby scenes, MAN! I miss playing rugby incredibly so.
some quotes/statements form the movie:
"he can win an election, but can he run a country?"
"its a legitimate question"
-he rested well enough in prison
-prove that we are what they feared we would be like
-getting them to be better then they think they can be
-"it helped me to stand when all I wanted to do was lay down" --reference to his inspiration and the poem Invictus
-I try not to think, as it interferes with my rugby
-Times'ave changed, we too, may as well
-If I cannot change when it is needed how can I expect others to
-Tomorrow is already taken care of

(The poem)
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.