"If you just compare South Africans to the rest of the world, I think that white South Africans, and especially English-speaking white South Africans, are exactly the same as Brits or Australians or New Zealanders or Canadians or Americans."

“Dogs notice, they share, they draw conclusions, they like it when they're able to be of service and are touchingly grateful when they're praised.”

Source : Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.483, Andrews McMeel Publishing

“What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 21, 2016

“I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.”

“Overcome the devils with a thing called love.”

“What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.”

“Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in.”

Source : Joelle Charbonneau (2013). “The Testing Guide”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“To be a man, to have been born without knowing it or wanting it, to be thrown into the ocean of existence, to be obliged to swim, to exist; to have an identity; to resist the pressure and shocks from the outside and the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts - one's own and those of others - which so often exceed one's capacities? And what is more, to endure one's own thoughts about all this: in a word, to be human.”

“Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.”