The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.

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

For who can stop the heart from breaking?

St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.