If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

All roads lead to Johannesburg.

One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.

It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.

I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those have not viewed the world.

Magnus did not take such suffering lightly, but even mortals did not die of broken hearts. No matter how cruel Grace had been, he told himself, James would heal. Even though he was a Herondale.

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.

A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.

A lot of people who work for WikiLeaks have the same instinct as me: If you are pushed you push back.

To fine that light within--that's the genius of poetry.

All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.

That's the great thing about doing good: Anyone can do it, any time, no waiting periods or batteries required.

They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.