“Before taking the court for any game, you should do a lot of thinking about what you have to do to beat your opponent and what he must or can do to beat you.”

Many South African tribes used extracts from the African bush willow to heal the sick.

I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.

If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.

The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.

It is neither easy nor agreeable to dredge this abyss of viciousness, and yet I think it must be done, because what could be perpetrated yesterday could be attempted again tomorrow, could overwhelm us and our children.

Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.

Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.