I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.

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