There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles; if a plain, she levels eighty; if a rock, she tilts five thousand feet of strata on end; our skies are higher and more intensely blue; our waves larger than others; our rivers fiercer. There is nothing measured, small nor petty in South Africa.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea.