“ Have you a room that you could let?Yes, I have a room that I could let, but I do not want to let it. I have only two rooms, and there are six of us already, and the boys and girls are growing up. But… Alan Paton
“ All roads lead to Johannesburg. If you are white or if you are black they lead to Johannesburg. If the crops fail, there is work in Johannesburg. If there are taxes to be paid, there is work in Johann… Alan Paton
“ Indeed, there is something in this valley, some spirit and some life, and much to talk about in the huts. Although nothing has come yet, something is here already. Alan Paton
“ I see only one hope for our country, and that is when white men and black men, desiring neither power nor money, but desiring only the good for their country, come together to work for it.I have one g… Alan Paton
“ Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand… Alan Paton
“ It was to the small serious boy that he turned for his enjoyment. He had bought the child some cheap wooden blocks, and with these the little one played endlessly and intently, with a purpose obscure… Alan Paton
“ Who indeed knows the secret of the earthly pilgrimage? Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Who knows what keeps us living and struggling, while all things break about us? Who knows why… Alan Paton
“ They were your friends?Yes, they were my friends.And they will leave you to suffer alone?Now I see it.And until this, were they friends you could trust?I could trust them.I see what you mean. You mean… Alan Paton
“ Meneer, said the captain, if man takes unto himself God's right to punish, then he must also take upon himself God's promise to restore. Alan Paton
“ There's a hard law, mejuffrou, that when a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. Alan Paton
“ There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man. Alan Paton
“ In the meantime the strike is over, with a remarkably low loss of life. All is quiet, they report, all is quiet.In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and… Alan Paton
“ — This world is full of trouble, umfundisi.— Who knows it better?— Yet you believe? Kumalo looked at him under the light of the lamp. I believe, he said, but I have learned that it is a secret. Pain a… Alan Paton
“ I do this not because I am courageous and honest, but because it is the only way to end the conflict of my deepest soul. Alan Paton
“ Life has not taught me to expect nothing but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. Alan Paton
