A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

The irony is that some people who occupy important positions in the field of journalism may have no clue of the ABC of Journalism. 

The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.

The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults. Just as Hindus can be classified on their basis of their cults, so also they can be classified on the basis of their habits of food.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

We are Indians, firstly and lastly.