Moer and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth in South Africa.

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.

You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.”“I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.

A good person. Not a bad resolution to make, in dark times.

Because a woman's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.

He would not mind hearing Petrus’s story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa.

The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.

To me, that's the ultimate isolation - to be separated from my own mind.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

I have a house in Saratoga Springs.

I don't want to feel that I'm a singer or an actress - being able to say that those are just experiences is what I enjoy.

Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge.

Anything is possible - even the most far-fetched idea can come to being through a series of seemingly small decisions and actions.

Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.

These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are.

my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame