Family really meant almost nothing to me for many years but then, to my enormous surprise, when I met my partner James I found myself re-engaging and re-connecting. My mother died in 1977 but I got to know my father as an adult, and he got on well with James. A rapprochement with my whole family followed.

I regard anticommunism as a matter of principle an evil even greater than communism itself.

We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

If you read the life of great men and women who made important changes in history, there are two common features: One, they were angry at the state of affairs and, two, they were people of faith.

The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler.

It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men.

There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.

When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.

We will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men; free people will set the course of history.

Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.