"No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war"

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

"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"

"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization"

"Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre"

"No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something"

"But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding"

"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy"

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past"

"It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him"

"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him"