For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.

Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.

As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.

To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.

Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.

Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.

Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground.

I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

Righteousness is by faith.

We see that every victory in our life depends on our faith

We are our own children's "perfect" parents, and within us lie all the simple, yet profound qualities of inner perfection.

Success lives with no address as people keep searching for it in spite of making any amount or level of progress

I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again.

When one's eyes are anointed with the salve of prema, spiritual love then we could see Vrindavan.

I've been very fortunate in that I've had wonderful relationships with people I've worked with.

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.

It's not that diabetes, heart disease, and obesity runs in your family...It's that no one runs in you family!

The garden, historically, is the place where all the senses are exploited. Not just the eye, but the ear - with water, with birds. And there is texture, too, in plants you long to touch.