I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.

But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

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.

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.

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

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.