My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career.

I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.

I can say unequivocally that the boycott does not work. It's never complete enough to have impact unless it's backed by force, and I don't think anybody in America seriously proposes that.

I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches.

The immediate present belongs to the extremists, but the future belongs to the moderates.

When you teach, you learn." "And I really don't go for religions of any kind. ...I reject them all....There were principles I thought were very important.

All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.

It is not my questions that embarrass South Africa – it is your answers.

It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.

When you teach, you learn.

Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy in this country.

(N)ot writing was hard work, almost as hard as writing.

There are times when the evil seems so impenetrable, the wickedness so victorious, you don't even know how to hope. But then the good news bursts in, as impossible to deny as it is to believe.

If we could believe so strong and strong enough in the invisible things like virtues and value system.

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless you are slamming the door in the face of God.

One mans cult is another mans religion.

Jesus had a humble heart. If He abides in us, pride will never dominate our lives.

You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.

I love superconductors.

I was swimming in art day and night. There were always parties being thrown, with artists from every medium (my extended aunts and uncles), living as boldly as they want to be.

We don't have a lot of power in the world, right? We can only control so many things. It allows you to curate your own emotional and artistic intake of life.