The acceptance of vertical differentiation with the built-in principle of self-determination must apply on as many levels as possible.

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.

As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.

She sobbed the way she did everything else- with passion and excess.

Open your arms to the world.

All paths are valid, but in the end you will find that the realization of the ultimate truth is a pathless path.

The pursuit of dreams is the fulfillment of the scriptures.

The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.

The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.

I don't want to disappear.

Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming; we can't even fathom that we're asleep.

When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.