Quotes from Bryce Courtenay

a sentiment, coming from it is not to be trusted.

He had given me the power of one, one idea, one heart, one mind, one plan, one determination. Hoppie had sensed my need to grow, my need to be assured that the world around me had not been specially arranged to bring about my undoing. He gave me a defence system and with it he gave me hope.

I had learned the most important rule in winning-keep thinking.

The reader is always right

Peu importe le rêve, qu'il soit ambitieux ou grandiose, quelqu'un finira par le réaliser. Autant que ce soit vous.

is intended to break the spirit, to render harmless those who are thought to be harmful.

The more you know, the more you can control your destiny.

And if you should be there and you see this beautiful cactus blossom painted silver by the moon and laughing up at the stars, this, Peekay, is heaven.

in Mexico there is a cactus that even sometimes you would think God forgets. But no, my friends, this is not so. On a full moon in the desert every one hundred years He remembers and opens a single flower to bloom. And If you would be there and you see this beautiful cactus blossom painted silver by the moon and laughing up at the stars, this, Peekay, is heaven … This is the faith in God the cactus has.

approaches him with some trepidation.

I spoke the language that had pronounced the sentences that had killed their grandfathers and sent their grandmothers to the world's first concentration camps

More fights are lost by underestimating your opponent than by any other way.

Racism is a primary force of evil designed to destroy good men.

What evidence do you have that the black people in your country are ready to rise against the regime? A true revolution begins from the soil, from the grass roots. It is the final cry of despair from the ground up. Have you heard the cry "freedom?

You couldn't lose, you was playing Mozart

around a proposition or an idea or story willingly. Some

A man on the run finds compassion or loveor even pretended innocence his greatest source of danger.

All children are flotsam driven by the ebb and flow of adult lives.

Everything has happened before; if you know what comes before, then you know what happens now.

When man is brutalized in such a place like this, he is looking for small signs. The smallest sign that someone is worried for him is like a fire on the dark mountain. When a man knows somebody cares, he keeps some small place, a corner maybe of his soul, clean and lit.

The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.

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 changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.

besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.

The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself, ofen well beyond any latent ability you may have previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, the body is simply the means it uses to run faster or longer, jump higher, shoot straighter, kick better, swim harder, hit further, or box better.