Our history is responsible for the differences in the South African way of life.

Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer.

I am sick and tired of the hollow parrot-cry of "Apartheid!" I've said many times that the word "Apartheid" means good neighbourliness.

Most blacks are happy, except those who have had other ideas pushed into their ears.

The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South Africa as long as civilisation stands.

I want to warn young people who lend their ears to radicals and who play around with the music from Lusaka - they will end up inside the bear's fur coat, but they will no longer be able to live.

I am not against the provision of the necessary medical assistance to Coloured and natives, because, unless they receive that medical aid, they become a source of danger to the European community.

We do not want chaos in South Africa.

South Africa is not a jellyfish and is in many respects a swordfish.

The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.

The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans.

The further you venture down a river the bigger the fish.

I will absolutely say that whatever job I was asked to do, whatever schedule I was asked to work, it is never going to be as hard as looking after a child.

Time perfects men as well as destroys them.

If we could wake each morning with no memory of living before we went to sleep, we might arrive at a faultless day.

...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found.

To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of familiar misquotation.

My my, hey hey... Rock and roll is here to stay. Hey hey, my my... Rock and roll will never die.

Don't let regrets about the past or worries about the future rob you of your enjoyment of the present.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.