How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of my love, as if something passed into my dancing blood from it.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died.

The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.

I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.

The things we like best are either illegal, immoral or fattening.

Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems.

All the great performers I have worked with are fueled by a personal dream.

Everything that I play as an actress is a different aspect of me.

If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.