It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

The very idea of a library for me is bound to my mother and father and includes the history of my own metamorphosis through books, fictions that are no less part of me than much of my own history.

Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Live in a dream gives numerous advantages and a dream that comes true give all the miracles we need in life

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

... lapses of memory are only attractive when you've encouraged them, not when they take you unawares.

Fortunately I am a mentally strong person and believe I will learn from the experience and continue to improve as a player and person because of it. (on breaking his leg)

Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he's free.

We knew what it was like to go without a lot of things, but we didn't mind, because we were going without those things together.

Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.