To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
Alan PatonPain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
Alan PatonOne day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
Alan PatonThere are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
Alan Paton