I'm not 17 anymore. I still have some of the same sort of anger, but I have a sense of humor about it... a sense of being constructive with that anger.

Think what it would be like if you got back to your island and there was no old man, no girl any more. No mysterious fun and games. The whole place locked up forever.

It was just a colour out of space—a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it

Gold is found in the deep rough soil, so go for gold

We must embrace the darkness as well as the light in order to truly understand life.

Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .

It had things that it could do and which I thought were worthwhile: one would be South Africa, of course. And, as I said, I assumed a leadership role within the Commonwealth on that.

I hope more people will ask diamond companies to continue changing the way they do business in Africa.

Go in and get us a shrunken head!

Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east.

Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form.