you have not been placed on this earth to be the sole source of comfort for the black man's fragile ego. Page 221

It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.

Do I believe in ghosts? Of course I do. So do you. Deep in the souls of the most sophisticated of us is lurking a fear of the supernatural which all the discoveries of scientists cannot eradicate.

Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.

My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career.

It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.

People get real comfortable with their features. Nobody gets comfortable with their hair. Hair trauma. It's the universal thing.

In the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices.

I hate to get gender essentialist, but I'm starting to think that a lot of married men have some sort of heterosexually induced dentistry aversion.

By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.