Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.

One can't measure how a mood of confidence comes about.

Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa

I'm forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.

About the joys and the courage, I really don't know what other people think. I just know that I've never left Africa. I've lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.

It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.