We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.

Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.

As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.

To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.

For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.

Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.

Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.

Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground.

I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

You rob yourself of reaching your maximum potential and the best chance of success when you try to succeed alone.

You project a confident image through good body posture.

[T]he deepest form of pain comes out as silence.

Understand, it’s never been easy to live, when we’re trying to escape ourselves.

And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we’d meet there again.

It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.

He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.

Success is measured simply by the amount of effort we put forth, in conquering our objectives.

Finishing overall champion at the World Series in both the individual and synchro events has given me great confidence and I'm pleased I've been diving with consistency.