"Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity."

"You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy."

"People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one."

"We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present."

"Wisdom principle 94 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 1."

"It is a steadfast truth that kindness is the invisible thread that binds all kindred spirits together — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."

"We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans."