A time will come when you're going to be numerous but your impact in the world will be like nothing
There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.
Traffic in Joburg is like the democratic process. Every time you think it's going to get moving and take you somewhere, you hit another jam.
Fashion is only different skins for different flavours of you.
Can't reinvent the wheel. But you can put your own spin on it.
The problem with snapshots is that they replace actual memories. You lock down the moment and it becomes all there is of it.
Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life.
Sometimes, if I really strain my brain, I can do multiplication.
We must recognize that this massive economic bloc that's emerging in North America cannot be accomplished unilaterally. It must be accomplished in partnership with Mexico and Canada. And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis.
Today’s world is traveling in some strange direction. You see that the world is going toward destruction and violence. And the specialty of violence is to create hatred among people and to create fear. I am a believer in nonviolence and I say that no peace or tranquility will descend upon the people of the world until nonviolence is practiced, because nonviolence is love and it stirs courage in people.
The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or orphaned or isolated or ill-timed—but strangely enough it can work better as a literal or reassuring statement than a transcendent or numinous or ecstatic one.