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Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome.

~ Wilbur Smith

Wilbur Smith Acceptance Cautionary Destiny Fate

A man follows the path laid out for him. He does his duty to God and his King. He does what he must do, not what pleases him. God's truth, boy, what kind of world would this be if every man did what pleased him alone? Who would plough the fields and reap the harvest, if every man had the right to say, 'I don't want to do that.' In this world there is a place for every man, but every man must know his place.

~ Wilbur Smith

Wilbur Smith Future Life Monsoon

They have been taught nothing but destruction and learned nothing except that a man's desires can be achieved simply by killing anybody who stands in his way.

~ Wilbur Smith

Wilbur Smith Desire Destruction Killing

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

~ Wilbur Smith

Wilbur Smith Capitalism Economy Government Hypocrisy Socialism

More than weapons, we need a leader.

~ Wilbur Smith

Wilbur Smith Leader Weapon

It's not the dying but the manner of it.

~ Wilbur Smith

Wilbur Smith Dying Manner

If I have to die, then it's best to do so before I see everything I love, the land, the animals, the people, all of it destroyed.

~ Wilbur Smith

Wilbur Smith Destroy Die Everything

At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes.

~ Wilbur Smith

Wilbur Smith Best Mother School

The mistake the apartheid government made was they gave the black people nothing, so they had nothing to lose. But now a lot of the former freedom-fighters are big-time capitalists. They've been given directorships in every major company. They're billionaires!

~ Wilbur Smith

Wilbur Smith Mistake People Company

My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye.

~ Wilbur Smith

Wilbur Smith Eye Speak Me

I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.

~ Wilbur Smith

Wilbur Smith Life Children Good

I'm not a prophet; I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived.

~ Wilbur Smith

Wilbur Smith Reality View Africa
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