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

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.

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

Happy the eyes that can close

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.

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

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