Bryce Courtenay
Bryce Courtenay
Bryce Courtenay, AMwas a South African/Australian advertising director and novelist. He is one of Australia's best-selling authors, notable for his book The Power of One...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth14 August 1933
believe heart men
As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is molded to suit the making of the myth. Man is a romantic at heart and will always put aside dull, plodding reason for the excitement of an enigma. As Doc had pointed out, mystery, not logic, is what gives us hope and keeps us believing in a force greater than our own insignificance.
emergencies sometimes sometimes-in-life
sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency
lying believe i-believe
I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.
motivational self-confidence pride
Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.
too-much pebbles diamond
Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles.
hate past natural
You can't go feeding your hate on the past, it's not natural.
country real night
I knew then that the person on the outside was only a shell, a presence to be seen and provoked. Inside was the real me, where my tears joined the tears of all the sad people to form the three waterfalls in the night country.
matter power-of-one ends
I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end.
brother men compassion
Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion.
love children giving
. . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.
winning mind embrace
Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do.
practice challenges shadow
Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow, whereas intelligence is the substance. -Doc
book alive stills
But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope.
people brain intellectual
I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.