There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another.

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 were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

the brain works better if the hand works too.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

The surest sign of fitness is success.