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

One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.

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

Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.

When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

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