The Power Of One

by Bryce Courtenay

beginning of the power of one, where I would learn that in each of us there is a flame that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it burns within us, we cannot be destroyed.

One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon after they are certain to go wrong. It’s just the way things are meant to be.

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

Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swivelled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.

There comes a time in everything when you don’t know something.’

‘Sometimes in life doing what we shouldn’t do is the emergency, Peekay,’ he said.