There are those whose love awakens our own and those whose love undermines. As long as we are blind to this fact, true love will elude us.

In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear, shame, guilt and judgement - was finally possible.

Those who nurse secrets, nurse a chaotic world of amplified silence.

Sometimes you have to cross the boundaries of Death in order to discover the meaning of Life.

My hand-stitched wings itchto take flightto test the winds of changethat inevitably blow at the end of a cycle.

I have forsaken her for a place I will never belong, but will always remain under her spell, forever to be, a child of my motherland.

Survival depends on denial, and death comes swiftly to those who forsake it.

Death descended like a theatrical storm over the Drakensberg Mountains, stranding me while it ran its course.

Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.

There is such beauty in the fight to live. We must all find the courage to go on.

I love what I do because I get to talk to the people who change the game: the influencers, visionaries who make things happen in music and culture. That's inspiring to me.

Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.

Stories first heard standing at a mother's knee, are never wholly forgotten, — a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years.

One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.

The women I liked when I was growing up, as a little boy, were Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, because they had these curvaceous figures, and they were erotic to me.

We both followed our hearts and had no choice but to hurt each other deeply.

Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.

It's like you're surfing... The same wave that can be a source of pain can be a beautiful flowing grace and source of power. It's all a matter of how you respond to it.