“Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.”

The tragedy is that things are not mended again.

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?

Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.

Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.

There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.

The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.

Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

All roads lead to Johannesburg.

It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.

Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.

The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.

Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.

I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.

I’ve never been part of anything so great as those three kids.

Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago

Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.

Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that’s been extended.

You had to see yourself poor and think of yourself as being poor, or you never would have been poor.

I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.

The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.