Bryce Courtenay

Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with…

— Bryce Courtenay

If I were king of the world there wouldn't be boat people, there would only be people coming in boats. I would…

— Bryce Courtenay

Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work extensively in…

— Bryce Courtenay

“He was notorious for cutting short extraneous verbiage from over-loquacious barristers".”

— Bryce Courtenay

“The mind is the athlete; the body is simply the means it uses to run faster or longer, jump higher, shoot straighter,…

— Bryce Courtenay

“But I started to realize that it doesn't begin like this, that anybody can be the target for prejudice, all you have…

— Bryce Courtenay

“In this world there are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some…

— Bryce Courtenay

“without courage, there is no luck and no hope. He who dares, wins.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do.

— Bryce Courtenay

The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself, ofen well beyond any latent ability you may…

— Bryce Courtenay

“The rapacious white tribe who were arriving in increasing numbers, not only as convicts but also as settlers, wanted to own everything…

— Bryce Courtenay

But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope.

— Bryce Courtenay

My job, and that's my job, is to dress the naked truth. To make it interesting, to make it viable, to make…

— Bryce Courtenay

I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die.

— Bryce Courtenay

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

— Bryce Courtenay

“Mediocrity is the best camouflage known to man.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Never take advice from a donkey.

— Bryce Courtenay