If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nation's mind. If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the nation's needs.

This is a good world. We need not approve of all the items in it, nor of all the individuals in it; but the world itself-which is more than its parts or individuals; which has a soul, a spirit, a fundamental relation to each of us deeper than all other relations-is a friendly world.

Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.

Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a brighter day.

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

To me the greatest thing that has happened on this earth of ours is the rise of the human race to the vision of God. That story of the human rise to what I call the vision of God is the story which is told in the Bible.

When in doubt, do the courageous thing.