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.
Date of birth: 1919-03-03
Quotes number: 5
Nationality: South African
Profession: Novelist
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.
I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.