Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a brighter day.

When in doubt, do the courageous thing.

If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites have striven for 200 years or more would be given up.

A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself

What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the aggressorsgot away with it.

Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.

History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.

If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nation's mind. If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the nation's needs.

Instead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe.

Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these as with my own soul; they became the sharers of my confidence.

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

No one cares how long you kept yourself virgin and how loyal you are, everyone is looking for a hole to play with.

Having her favorite breakfast always made her feel cozy, like a warm blanket was being wrapped around her.

Every relationship I've been in becomes long-distance because of work. It's never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult.

People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.

If you try to breastfeed and it's not working, then you don't feel particularly good about yourself.

We're always too skinny, or too fat. Too tall, or too short. We're shaming each other, and we're shaming ourselves, and it sucks.

A finger points at the moon, but the moon is not at the tip of the finger. Words points at the truth, but the truth is not in words.

The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning.

Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.