I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise she might say something that confuses and distracts me.

We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below and it's a valley of peace.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism that sort of thing.

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature a soul why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment his soul might die before his body does or that his soul might die without his knowing it?

I often get letters quite frequently from people who say how they like the programmes a lot but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy wasteful blundering low and horribly cruel work of nature!