It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.
Wilbur SmithA cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.
Wilbur SmithI'm not a prophet I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived.
Wilbur SmithI don't want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?
Wilbur Smith