Good fences make good neighbors.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

The best way out is always through.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

Celebrate the people in your life who are there because they love you for no other reason than because you are YOU.

You can get what you want. It depends on the strength of your desire.

A family man shouldn't trade his peace for profits, it is the job of a businessman.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds.

As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.

How can I express the darkness?

There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them.