Nelson Mandela's Favorite Passage From Shakespeare

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear; seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come." 

From an interview with Oprah Winfrey: http://www.oprah.com/world/Oprah-Interviews-Nelson-Mandela/10