If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nation's mind. If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the nation's needs.

When in doubt, do the courageous thing.

If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites have striven for 200 years or more would be given up.

A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself

What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the aggressorsgot away with it.

Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.

Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a brighter day.

History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.

Instead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe.

Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these as with my own soul; they became the sharers of my confidence.

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

Disease could wipe out an army quicker than any battle.

I think every genius person has a bit of insanity.

Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.

I really like to travel when I write. Something about seeing new things and being in new cultures and environments provokes new thoughts in your head.

In Isleta the rainbow was a crack in the universe. We saw the barest of all life that is possible. Bright horses rolled over and over the dusking sky.

It's so rare, especially as a younger actor, to find a role where it's not just one-dimensional and it's not just a stock leading man.

Get me a skinny frappuccino. I have no idea what that is - I would like to think you would be presented with a tiny Italian man.

God is there only if you surrender. Surrender makes anything God. Surrender give you the eyes, and everything that is brought to these eyes becomes Divine.