Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.

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.

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

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.

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

It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.