“…Do not betray, do not be excessive, do not kill a newborn child.”

“One must do nothing in excess”

“There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.”

“Do not count the days, do not count the miles. Count only the Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this is your old mother's prayer. Kill the German - this is what your children beseech you to do. Kill the German - this is the cry of your Russian earth. Do not waver. Do not let up. Kill.”

“I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.”

“If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. Also, you will have betrayed your community in failing to make your contribution.”

“If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.”

“I would never betray Venda.”
“Sometimes we’re all pushed to do things we thought we could never do.”

“If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.”

“Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her? Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very "poetry of his soul". Well, it's not easy but men do it all the time.”