The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

All roads lead to Johannesburg.

One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.

It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.

I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words, -Wait and hope.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

We all have a common goal, and we know it's all for our future good.

When we talk about the assertion of basically new government privileges with weak or no justification, we don't even have to look at international law to see the failings in them.

What God arranges for us to experience at each moment is the best and holiest thing that could happen to us.

[T]o argue that something is so because it is in the Bible is more than intellectually bankrupt.

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

The American is said to become full-flavored, and in time a most all-round man, through the polish which Europe can impart.

An untidy, badly run house will ruin any marriage and is a disgrace to any intelligent woman.

Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.