“Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars.”

“I am the prince of procrastination. It is my besetting sin. I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after”

“There is no friendship possible between men and women[...]. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”

“Those who pay their bills on time are soon forgotten. It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.”

“Something in the humble voice must have touched Msimangu, for he said, I am not kind. I am a selfish and sinful man, but God put his hands on me, that is all.”

“Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.”

“If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.”