If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa

A desert is a place without expectation.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.

Writing is making sense of life.

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.

One can repent of a sin and have done with it

The only victory over love is flight.

Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

I feel like I'm the winner. I really do.

Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

Everything that I'm really about is being an individualist. I believe in individuality.

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all.

As Prime Minister of Israel, I will introduce a bill into the Knesset that will simply pay the Arabs not to shoot at the Jews.