My self is all to me. I don't have any need of you.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.

Problems go away because someone does something about them! What are you doing about the problems or challenges around you? Don’t just complain…..Act and now!

O golden Silence bid our souls be still and on the foolish fretting of our care lay thy soft touch of healing unaware!

The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.

To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.

Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.

Out of all the fighters that I have developed, clothed, financed, Gerrie Coetzee is the only one who had the decency to say 'thanks'.

...war is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.

I can't explain why a bride buys her wedding dress, whereas a groom rents his tux.

Don't be flirting with your gift, you better marry it