All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. 

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

 The weak loo for scapegoats. The strong defend and justify their actions.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. 

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. 

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.