Religion is the resolute following of the star of hope through triumphs and tragedies of time.

Fortunately for serious minds a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

A homely face does not guarantee a homely character. Appearance is the body, character is the spirit, and the soul bears the most vital qualities.

Increase is a natural desire

You don't ask for all that you get. You don't get all that you ask for. That doesn't mean you don't work the hardest for what you want the most.

It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary.

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

There is no debating that, under President Obama, corporate profits are at their highest levels in decades.

We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue.

I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.