History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.

When in doubt, do the courageous thing.

If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites have striven for 200 years or more would be given up.

A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself

What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the aggressorsgot away with it.

Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.

Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a brighter day.

If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nation's mind. If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the nation's needs.

Instead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe.

Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these as with my own soul; they became the sharers of my confidence.

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".

The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.

If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.

Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come take my hand, my friend, and we will peer into this fear's abyss. And jump! And know.

He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

I went to Texas a few times for gigs and adopted the cowboy look. Every man, at some point in his life, goes through a cowboy stage - everyone! Well, at least everyone that I look up to!