Beware of your most implacable enemy — yourself. — Wilbur Smith

"Robin Hood was also a terrorist ― but he had some style and a little class."

"Something always dies when the lion feeds — and yet there is meat for those that follow him."

"They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy — just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it."

"Should five slaves dictate to a king? If five baboons bark, must the black-maned lion tremble?"

"Its an old chestnut, but those set to guard a treasure, are too often those who loot it."

"When a traveller gets a thorn in his foot," Mbejane went on softly, "and he is wise, he plucks it out — and he is a fool, he leaves it and says, I will keep this thorn to prick me so that I will always remember the road upon which I have travelled. Nkosi, it is better to remember with pleasure than with pain."