Go where your best prayers take you.
I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.
I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least.
Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.
You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?. . . Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Friends, Comrades and fellow South Africans. I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all. I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your hands.
. . . people get confidential at midnight.
Learning about ourselves is rather inconvenient because it turns the world we live in upside down.