When you teach, you learn.

It is not my questions that embarrass South Africa – it is your answers.

I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches.

When you teach, you learn.

[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.

The immediate present belongs to the extremists, but the future belongs to the moderates.

Perhaps the one comforting thought I got out of this whole disgusting affair was that over the years when the government was tapping my telephone, it must certainly have heard some home truths from me about themselves, often couched in good Anglo-Saxon terms.