“I'm not a prophet; I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to be...”

“My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me wit...”

“The mistake the apartheid government made was they gave the black people nothing, so they had nothing to lose. But now a lot of th...”

“At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern...”

“If I have to die, then it's best to do so before I see everything I love, the land, the animals, the people, all of it destroyed.”

“Patriotism is a myth conceived by those old rogues to draw us into the infernal game. Let them fight as they will, but we want no...”

“In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.”

“It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're g...”

“So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.”

“When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over th...”

“Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorb...”

“I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back an...”