We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for. Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes. Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.

It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.

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

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

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?