South African Quotes

Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.

I'm so good and so loving that men don't believe it.

I'm a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.

I'd been shouting and shouting and no-one wanted to hear me.

I wanna be loved. I just wanna be loved.

I'm going to become the Pope next year. Nothing is impossible.

I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.

It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.

When I thought about the calibre of people in the room I realized we might just have a credible candidate for Mayor who will would finally enforce the laws of the city. It was almost too good to be true.

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.

Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.

To get where you want to go you can't only do what you like.

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.