He would not mind hearing Petrus’s story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa.

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.

You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.”“I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.

A good person. Not a bad resolution to make, in dark times.

Because a woman's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.

Moer and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth in South Africa.

Freedom, I thought, comes only to the successful

Let an eagle's stance in life be your stance too: Noble and powerful!

Don't threaten me with a good time.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.

I wanted to use some kind of name so people would know where I was from. So I took the name "bluegrass." There is not a prettier name in the whole world.

Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

I think that as a society as well, we need to be smart about what technologies we take up and how construe progress.

Dreams are things that could potentially be treating you as a pupil to teach you things so when you wake up, you'll be able to handle certain elements from those dreams in a better way.

You can say the right thing about a product and nobody will listen. You’ve got to say it in such a way that people will feel it in their gut. Because if they don’t feel it, nothing will happen.