When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

We use Halloween to scare the kids and bankers to scare the adults.

He would not mind hearing Petrus’s story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa.

Try smiling at people, you never know how one smile can affect their day.

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

Full many wanton babes have I, Which must be stilled with lullaby.

When a man is right he wants to get all that is coming to him for being right.

I'd love to play in, like, a 'Lord of the Rings,' or something like that, or a James Bond or, you know, just something like with action, shooting.

When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.

Nothing bad happens when women are in positions of power.