“Indeed, mother, you are always our helper." "For what else are we born?” — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich. — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal. — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“It was to the small serious boy that he turned for his enjoyment. He had bought the child some cheap wooden blocks,… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“Indeed, there is something in this valley, some spirit and some life, and much to talk about in the huts. Although nothing… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“I see only one hope for our country, and that is when white men and black men, desiring neither power nor money,… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“They were your friends?" "Yes, they were my friends." "And they will leave you to suffer alone?" "Now I see it." "And… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“All roads lead to Johannesburg. If you are white or if you are black they lead to Johannesburg. If the crops fail,… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“Who indeed knows the secret of the earthly pilgrimage? Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Who knows what… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply.… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“Have you a room that you could let?" "Yes, I have a room that I could let, but I do not want… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“He is a missionary and believes in God, intensely I mean, but it takes all kinds to make a world.” — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“All roads lead to Johannesburg. If you are white or if you are black they lead to Johannesburg. If the crops fail, there is… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“There's a hard law, mejuffrou, that when a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.” — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and that's why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate. — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school,… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing. — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“Indeed, there is something in this valley, some spirit and some life, and much to talk about in the huts. Although nothing has come… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“In a land of fear... incorruptibility is like a lamp set upon a stand, giving light to all in the house.” — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“Something within me is waking from long sleep, and I want to live and move again. Some zest is returning to me, some immense… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“Would age now swiftly overtake him? Would this terrible nodding last now for all his days, so that men said aloud in his presence,… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
