Bryce Courtenay Quotes

Love is energy: it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness... Love will never die.

Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.

Never take advice from a donkey.

Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.

Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!

One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon afterward they are certain to go wrong. It's just the way things are meant to be.

When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.

It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.

Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles.

Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state.

You've got to be quick on your feet in this world if you want to survive. Though once you know the rules, it is not too hard to play the game.

It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!

What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.

Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do.

I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end.

First with the head, then with the heart.

People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.

The imagination is always the best torturer.

Sometimes, very occasionally, you do your best boxing with your mouth.

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller.

I wish to cup knowledge in my hand and drink it as one drinks water by the side of the stream.

It's been a privilege to write for you and to have you accept me as a storyteller in your lives, Now, as my story draws to an end, may I say only, 'Thank you. You have been simply wonderful'.

I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die.

If I were king of the world there wouldn't be boat people, there would only be people coming in boats. I would mix us all up so that we were all exactly one shade of each other.

Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.

sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency

Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion.

My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.

But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope.

You can't go feeding your hate on the past, it's not natural.

. . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.

It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something.

Small can beat big, but you must have a plan.

He was notorious for cutting short extraneous verbiage from over-loquacious barristers".

You couldn't lose, you was playing Mozart

Storytellers are the keepers - we are the time keepers, the continuity keepers. We are the people who tell us who we are, where we've come from, and maybe even where we're going.

It's who you is when folks knocks at the door of your heart what counts. Hide the past and it gives them what's jealous of you the power to bring you undone.