I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.

I can no longer serve justice in the way I have attempted to do during the past 30 years - I can do it only in the way I have now chosen.

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.

Whatever labels may be attached to the fifteen charges brought against me, they all arise from my having been a member of the Communist Party and from my activities as a member.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live.

When people inexplicably dissapeared into thin air, it was usually because they had a new zip code. Something like 666

The sense that my world is stable and stationary, that change will never come and that all will go on continuously as it is, is the nature of all delusion.

When we do what God wants us to do, we are blessed, we are spiritually healthy.

One word of love is worth more than a thousand clever speeches.

Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.

Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.

You are free, but you have to choose. An open oven bakes no bread

Religion is a bridge to the spiritual, but the spiritual lies beyond religion.