Bryce Courtenay

First with the head, then with the heart.

Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

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

I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end.

Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.

You've got to be quick on your feet in this world if you want to survive. Though once you know the rules, it is not too hard to play the game.

It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something.

Generosity overpowers greed.

Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state.

Your brain, Peekay, has two functions; it is a place for original thought, but also it is a reference library. Use it to tell you where to look, and then you will have for yourself all the brains that have ever been.