“ Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion. Bryce Courtenay
“ Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state. Bryce Courtenay
“ A man on the run finds compassion or loveor even pretended innocence his greatest source of danger. Bryce Courtenay
“ Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention. Bryce Courtenay
“ Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no… Bryce Courtenay
“ Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and chang… Bryce Courtenay
“ Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it. Bryce Courtenay
“ It's who you is when folks knocks at the door of your heart what counts. Hide the past and it gives them what's jealous of you the power to bring you undone. Bryce Courtenay
“ Over all this lay Hoppie's dictum: First with the head and then with the heart. Winning was something you worked at intellectually, emotion clouds the mind and is its natural enemy. This made for a lo… Bryce Courtenay
“ I felt clean, all the bone-beaked loneliness birds banished, their rocky nests turned to river stones. Cool, clear water bubbled over them, streams in the desert. Bryce Courtenay
“ How I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed. Bryce Courtenay
“ He was notorious for cutting short extraneous verbiage from over-loquacious barristers". Bryce Courtenay
