Time can be such a menace to a man. By this age do that; by that age do better.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

The problem with death is absence

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning there's the bread and you make the toast and you start the day.

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.

The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.

Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved

true apothecary thy drugs art quick

If I had to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine would be blank. On the last page I should write: "I recognize only one duty, and that is to love.

If so, I couldn't imagine how the opposite gender managed to get out of bed in the morning. They might be lovely to look at, but clear thinking wasn't their strong point.

Belief unconfirmed by experiment is vain.

If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?

History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.

My dream is that all South Africans from all walks of life will have the opportunity to read my books and use the information therein to successfully invest in property

For our soul is so preciously loved of him that is highest, that it over-passeth the knowing of all creatures.

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.