For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.

We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race.

At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.

Simplicity is the essence of universality.

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.