With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone. . . You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.
The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
The greater the tension, the greater is the potential.
For better to come, good must stand aside.
Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical cloak of Christian love or the sense of social responsibility or any of the other beautiful euphemisms for unconscious urges to personal power.
Commendation heals; condemnation destroys.
The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.
On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint.