Alan Paton Quotes

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.

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

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

Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.

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

She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.