The employment laws are completely unrealistic. You cannot overcome that in only 10 years. It will take at least another generation before young people are properly qualified.

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.

There is no other enjoyment like reading

You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it.

In a nutshell, I am not unaware of my failings. Neither am I a stranger to irony.

I thought that people should know about the dangers of Satanism, and diabolism does exist - there's no question about it.

The United States has no credible evidence that Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria early last year before the U.S.-led war that drove Saddam Hussein from power.

Answer hopelessness with a defiant smile and a raised middle finger.

It was certainly a good death scene. I'm endlessly perishing in roles but it's a wonderful thing to be asked to do.

An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.

Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.

Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.