Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer.

I am sick and tired of the hollow parrot-cry of "Apartheid!" I've said many times that the word "Apartheid" means good neighbourliness.

Most blacks are happy, except those who have had other ideas pushed into their ears.

The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South Africa as long as civilisation stands.

I want to warn young people who lend their ears to radicals and who play around with the music from Lusaka - they will end up inside the bear's fur coat, but they will no longer be able to live.

I am not against the provision of the necessary medical assistance to Coloured and natives, because, unless they receive that medical aid, they become a source of danger to the European community.

We do not want chaos in South Africa.

Our history is responsible for the differences in the South African way of life.

South Africa is not a jellyfish and is in many respects a swordfish.

The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.

The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans.

Kindness has a power to change.

God helps the brave.

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.

I am an enemy of the State. But isn't everyone?

The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.

An epicure is one who gets nothing better than the cream of everything but cheerfully makes the best of it.

Sometimes you have to accept how things are. You can make it easy on yourself, or you can make it hard. The choice is yours.

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.