Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.

When in doubt, do the courageous thing.

If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites have striven for 200 years or more would be given up.

A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself

What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the aggressorsgot away with it.

Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a brighter day.

History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.

If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nation's mind. If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the nation's needs.

Instead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe.

Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these as with my own soul; they became the sharers of my confidence.

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

Life is your greatest asset.

The one great universal in the study of violence is that most of it is committed by fifteen-to-thirty-year-old men.

One could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within.

Sometimes in life you have to make a decision and make sacrifices.

I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.

Learn how to let go and say a good good-bye.

Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with fear.

Love conquers all things.